Old Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House.
Old Forge House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-finial-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Forge House, Sockbridge, Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JT
- OS grid reference
- NY 500 268
- Coordinates
- 54.63457, -2.7754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge House is a house that features a lintel inscribed with "17 WS 41" and includes later additions. The building is constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The south elevation consists of two storeys and three bays, with the first bay being a later addition. The first bay has casements in two square windows on the ground floor and one window on the first floor. The second and third bays contain two-light windows with flat-faced mullions set in chamfered reveals, while the ground floor of the third bay has a three-light window. The entrance is located between the second and third bays and features a dated lintel. The house has a cross-axial stack and a gable-end stack. The north elevation includes a gabled wing and a lean-to outshut that extends around the east return.
Local climate
Old Forge House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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