Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1952. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-niche-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 21, North End, Ditchling, Lewes, BN6 8TD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 155
- Coordinates
- 50.92375, -0.11473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed building, originally two cottages. The front is plastered, and part of the ground floor was rebuilt in brick and painted, though the timbering is exposed on the north side, displaying close-studding and plastered infilling. The first floor oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tile roof. The windows are casement type. The cottage is two storeys high and has five windows.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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