Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-banister-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 14, High Street, Easterton, SN10 4PE
- OS grid reference
- SU 021 549
- Coordinates
- 51.29411, -1.97121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of High Street in Easterton. The building features a timber frame, with some sections replaced by brick and is colourwashed. The original thatched roof has been replaced with pantiles. The cottage has a lobby entry plan, which includes a 20th-century four-panelled door and 19th-century timber casement windows. The framing displays a heavy bressumer and two panels above, with one stud featuring an incised inscription that reads "1619 SEPTE W." At the rear, there are two late 17th-century leaded windows.
Inside, there is a fireplace in the central stack that serves the left living/kitchen area. The left room has an unshaped binder, while the right side features a rough spine beam. Additionally, a later stack has been added to the rear wall.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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