Forest House is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Forest House
- WRENN ID
- spare-zinc-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forest House, Merrin Street, Mitcheldean, GL17 0BT
- OS grid reference
- SO 665 183
- Coordinates
- 51.86239, -2.48785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest House is a house built in the early 19th century. It features an ashlar stone plinth with painted plain render above and a slate roof. The building is three windows wide and has an L-shaped bay extension on the left. It is two rooms deep and has two storeys plus attics. The windows are sash style, and the front door, which is slightly off centre to the right, has six panels—four fielded and two flush. Above the door is a plain semi-circular fanlight with a moulded surround.
To the left, there is a single-bay extension with a double sash window on the ground floor and a single sash window on the first floor. The right wing wall steps down and features a boarded door. The roof is hipped and has two gabled dormers with four-pane sash windows. There are two chimneys on each end wall. The garden front includes two original bow windows on the ground floor, with a lattice porch situated between them.
Local climate
Forest House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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