Home Cottages the Forge is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. A C18 Cottage.

Home Cottages the Forge

WRENN ID
tall-hall-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 January 1986
Type
Cottage
Period
C18
Address
Home Cottages the Forge, Funtington Road, Chichester
OS grid reference
SU 799 083
Coordinates
50.86901, -0.86545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Home Cottages, also known as The Forge, is a range of four cottages from the 18th century. The buildings are two storeys high and are faced with flints, featuring red brick dressings, quoins, and a modillion eaves cornice. They have a tiled roof and casement windows.

Local climate

Home Cottages the Forge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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