Forge House and Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Forge House and Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-oriel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House and Forge Cottage, Village Road, Coleshill, HP7 0LR
- OS grid reference
- SU 948 949
- Coordinates
- 51.64577, -0.63094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House and Forge Cottage are medieval buildings with elements from the 17th century, featuring a casing of red and grey brick from the 18th century. The roof is tiled and hipped at the north end, with dentil eaves. The structure has two storeys and includes four casement windows with two and three lights on the ground floor, all set under brick arches. There is a blocked door on the extreme left, a modern gabled porch on the left, and a lean-to porch on the right for Forge Cottage. The first floor has five windows, all under brick arches except for two on the left. Inside, there are remains of a cruck truss in the first bay from the left, along with 17th-century timbering and a stack.
Local climate
Forge House and 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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