Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. A C17 Detached house.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-balcony-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Forge Cottage, A39, Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon
- OS grid reference
- SS 715 476
- Coordinates
- 51.2138, -3.84011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a detached house with origins dating back to the 17th century, although it has been modified over time. The building is constructed of rendered rubble and features an asbestos-cement slate roof with stone stacks. It has a plain gabled design that includes a cross passage and a heated room on each side. The cottage is two storeys tall and has a three-window range.
The windows consist of two-light casements at the eaves level, positioned above a three-light window, a small blocked square light with a chamfered surround, and another three-light window, all of which are situated beneath a continuous stone rough drip course. To the right of the blocked light, there is a 20th-century door set back in plain reveals. At the rear, the cottage features two half-dormers above a later brick lean-to that extends nearly the full width of the property.
On the left (east) side, there is a large external gable stack, and another gable stack is located on the right side. The interior is not generally accessible, but a 19th or 20th-century timber dogleg stair can be found to the right of the main entrance.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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