Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-pewter-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Cowley, Upton Pyne, EX5 5EL
- OS grid reference
- SX 905 957
- Coordinates
- 50.75065, -3.55279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a cottage dating from the 1860s, constructed from stone with brick quoins, window surrounds, and banding, all under a slate roof. The building is L-shaped and two storeys high, with two chimneys. One wing features a half-hipped gable, with gable-end windows set within pointed arches of red and yellow brick. The other wing has a gabled end and contains two windows, the upper window having a steeper pointed arch than the one below. Red brick banding is present throughout. The tympana (triangular spaces) of the upper windows are decorated with red tiles. This is a carefully designed small cottage, demonstrating a sensitive combination of diverse materials—yellow and red brick, limestone, and sandstone, alongside red tiles and grey and blue slates—and a clever application of Gothic detailing on a small, intimate scale. It provides a pleasing contrast to the grey limestone chapel built in the 19th century opposite.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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