Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-doorway-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, Barrow Hill, Stalbridge, DT10 2QX
- OS grid reference
- ST 734 178
- Coordinates
- 50.95917, -2.37901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage with colour-washed rubble walls and a thatched roof featuring a brick stack at one end. The building has two storeys and two window openings. The upper floor has wooden casements with two lights, while the ground floor has wooden casements with three lights. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension made of coursed rubble with a flat roof.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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