Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. A C17 Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-banister-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, King Street, Sturminster Marshall
- OS grid reference
- ST 947 000
- Coordinates
- 50.80025, -2.07574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 17th century lobby entrance cottage that has undergone extensions in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The cottage features rendered walls built on a cob and brick base. It has a half hipped thatch roof, with slate covering the extension and a flat roof at the rear. The southeast front is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:2. The windows are casements, with an upper oriel window at the northeast gable that has a moulded lintel and cill supported by brackets. The plain doorways are topped with thatched hoods.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- No related consent applications matched
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