The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- winter-column-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Forge, the Green, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 735
- Coordinates
- 51.4604, -2.19649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a pair of cottages with a converted forge attached, now functioning as a house, dating from the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone and features stone tiled roofs with a stack at the east end. It is two storeys high, with two windows on the upper floor. The windows are cyma-moulded mullion windows, and on the ground floor, there is a three-light cyma-moulded flush mullion window with a hoodmould, located to the right of two moulded stone flush doorways, one of which is concealed by a 20th-century stone porch. The windows have small panes.
To the east, there is an attached one-storey and attic stone tiled range with a coped east gable. This section includes ovolo-moulded stone-mullion windows with hoods under relieving arches, featuring one three-light window on the north front and a 20th-century four-light window on the ground floor and attic of the east end. The rear wing has a roof covered with Bridgwater tiles.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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