The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- wild-wattle-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, Hilldrop Lane, Ramsbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 270 715
- Coordinates
- 51.44204, -1.61281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a 17th-century house located on Hilldrop Lane in Ramsbury. It features a combination of rendering over brickwork and timber framing, topped with a tiled roof. The building is two stories high with four bays and has a forward extension on the right that is gabled towards the road. The entrance to the cottage is in the first bay, accessed through a boarded door. The windows include 12-pane sashes, with a tripartite arrangement in the central bay, and there are two prominent chimney stacks.
Inside, the property boasts chamfered spine beams with swept and check stops. The right end bay has a carved bracket situated between the windows, and there is open framing that leads to a former outbuilding at a higher level, which is now part of the forward extension. The Old Forge was formerly known as the Bleeding Horse Inn, which was established in the mid-18th century.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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