Forches is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House.
Forches
- WRENN ID
- scarred-hinge-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forches, Langtree
- OS grid reference
- SS 453 141
- Coordinates
- 50.90629, -4.20075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forches is a small house dating from the early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It has rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left. There is a brick stack at the right gable end and a small brick shaft at the left-hand end. The house has a two-room plan, with the larger heated room located on the right.
The exterior is two storeys high, featuring a regular three-window front that faces away from the road. This front has late 20th-century PVC leaded pane casements, with the first-floor windows being half dormers. To the right of centre, there is a similar glazed double door beneath a gabled slate door hood. At the left-hand end, there is an early 20th-century single-storey addition with a tiled roof. Additionally, there is a 19th-century one-storey outbuilding lean-to against the right-hand end, which has a low door at the front.
Inside, there is an open fireplace at the right-hand end, although the lintel is obscured by a mantelpiece.
Local climate
Forches sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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