The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- tilted-niche-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, 28, Main Street, Ashley, LE16 8HF
- OS grid reference
- SP 794 909
- Coordinates
- 52.51038, -0.83111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house dating from the 17th century and mid 18th century. It is built of regularly coursed ironstone and has a 20th-century reconstituted stone slate roof. The building has an L-shape plan and is two storeys high. The main front features a two-window range with plain two-light casements set under wooden lintels. There is a central 20th-century door also beneath a wooden lintel. The gable ends have brick and stone parapets with brick stacks. The left elevation is similar and likely originates from the mid 17th century. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer in the rear wing and the base of a cruck, although the upper section has been renewed.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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