Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-granite-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Main Street, Sproxton, YO62 5EF
- OS grid reference
- SE 617 815
- Coordinates
- 54.2262, -1.05484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is likely from the 17th century, with earlier origins and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of whitewashed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with brick stacks. It is designed as a 3-cell longhouse with a hearth-passage entry plan, providing accommodation to the left and a former byre to the right. The cottage has one storey and an attic. The front includes a relocated 19th-century stable door, two 3-light casement windows to the left, and one 2-light Yorkshire sash window to the right, all with wooden lintels. In the attic, there are two 20th-century dormer casement windows to the left. Inside, there is a 19th-century heck with signs of an earlier one, as well as a salt box and a spice cupboard. It is likely that the cottage was originally a cruck frame, but no direct evidence of this remains.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 2000
- 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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