Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-spandrel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, High Street, Rode, BA11 6PB
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 540
- Coordinates
- 51.28494, -2.28089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, originally part of a pair with number 65. The construction is of random rubble, with pantile and double-Roman tile roofs and two restored brick ridge stacks. The facade is irregular. The left bay has three windows with hollow-moulded stone mullions; the ground-floor window has a decorative label. The centre two bays feature casements with glazing bars to the first floor, while the ground floor has two 20th-century nine-light sash windows. The right bay has a first-floor window with hollow-moulded stone mullions and a ground-floor casement with glazing bars; the ground-floor window is set beneath a reused 17th-century arched and moulded wooden lintel. Two door openings lead to number 65, with plank doors. A two-storey, pent-roofed outshut, added in the 20th century, provides access to Forge Cottage via a half-glazed door on the return side. Forge Cottage was formerly the village forge.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- 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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