The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- long-buttress-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Forge, 11/13, High Street, Roade, NN7 2NW
- OS grid reference
- SP 757 517
- Coordinates
- 52.15845, -0.89373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a row of three cottages, now functioning as two, dating from the late 17th century and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The cottages are built from coursed limestone rubble and feature plain tile roofs from the 20th century, with brick stacks at the ends. The structure is two stories high and has a six-window range.
No. 9, located on the left, is a two-unit lobby-entry plan house. It has a 20th-century pebble-dashed gabled porch on the left, a nine-pane sash window to the right of the porch, a small one-light window at the far right on the ground floor, and a nine-pane sash window on the first floor to the left, all with wooden lintels. There is a blocked window on the first floor to the right, and a 19th-century two-story, one-window extension at the left end with sash windows.
The Old Forge, situated to the right, has painted stonework and originally consisted of two cottages. The left half features a 20th-century glazed door to the left, two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, and a small fire window on the ground floor to the right, all with wooden lintels. The two-story, two-window portion on the right has a four-panel door and two-light casement windows on both floors, also with wooden lintels. Inside No. 9, there is a stop-chamfered spine beam.
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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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