Little Barn Cottage the Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. A C18 Cottage.
Little Barn Cottage the Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- patient-granite-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Barn Cottage the Old Forge, 40, Hartfoot Lane, Hilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 762 028
- Coordinates
- 50.82445, -2.33832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Barn Cottage and The Old Forge are a pair of cottages, likely built in the 18th century. The walls are made of brick and flint up to the first floor, with plastered cob above. They have thatched roofs and brick stacks at both ends and in the center. The cottages are two storeys high.
Little Barn Cottage (No.39) features a single-storey extension on the left side, made of brick with a hipped thatched roof. It has a ledged door in a brick gabled porch. The ground floor includes one casement window with cast iron glazing, while the first floor has two similar windows.
The Old Forge (No.40) has a 20th-century half-glazed door in an open timber porch. Its ground floor has two casement windows, one with glazing bars and one with cast iron glazing. The first floor has three casement windows, one with glazing bars and two with cast iron glazing. The main room on the ground floor features a large open fireplace with a bread oven and one chamfered ceiling beam.
Local climate
Little Barn Cottage the Old Forge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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