The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Forge.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- mired-grate-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Old Forge, 26, High Street, Amersham
- OS grid reference
- SU 957 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66646, -0.6175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge, located at 26 Amersham High Street, is a 16th-century building that has been refaced. The ground floor is made of modern red brick, while the upper part is rendered. It features an old tiled roof with a gable on the left side. On the ground floor, there is a seven-light leaded casement window to the left of a two-panelled shutter door, and a three-light casement window with shutters on the right. The first floor jetties out on exposed corbels and moulded beams, with two three-light leaded casement windows. The west gable displays exposed timber framing and a large projecting brick chimney stack with wide tiled offsets at the ground floor level. There is a lower rear wing constructed of timber framing and brick, topped with a hipped tiled roof and a leaded casement window.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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