Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
former-pedestal-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
House
Address
Forge Cottage, 40, the Green, Wooburn, HP10 0EU
OS grid reference
SU 912 885
Coordinates
51.58801, -0.68402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with some alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed with whitewashed brick and render infill, and the front gable end is completely rendered and whitewashed. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there are 19th to 20th century bargeboards and a small brick chimney on the left side. The house has two storeys and two bays, with a gabled end facing the green. The upper storey jetties out at the front and features a 19th century moulded fascia board. The front has two 20th century three-light wooden casements on the ground floor and a 19th to 20th century three-light wooden casement with horizontal glazing bars on the first floor, along with a central boarded door. The left side has two paired casements with some leaded glazing on the first floor and a small wooden light on the ground floor to the left. The other bays attached to the rear have been rebuilt and are part of the Red Lion Inn. Inside, there are curved braces to the tie beam of the central truss, but other features are concealed.

Local climate

Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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