The Old Forge and Forecourt Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Forge and house, now a house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Forge and Forecourt Railing
- WRENN ID
- second-transept-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Forge and house, now a house
- Address
- The Old Forge and Forecourt Railing, Church Road, Lympsham, BS24 0DT
- OS grid reference
- ST 335 540
- Coordinates
- 51.28211, -2.95375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a building that was likely constructed in the late 18th century and has since been converted into a house. It features painted roughcast walls and a slate roof divided into four distinct sections. The section on the left has a gabled front, with the ridge running at right angles to the facade, and includes coped verges and a finial on the left. The architectural style is Tudor-Gothic.
The building is two storeys high and has a layout of 1:2:4 bays. It includes two and three-light chamfered stone mullioned windows, each fitted with diamond-paned cast-iron lights and stopped labels. On the left side, there is a single bay with a broad pointed arch door opening that has a drip mould and features 20th-century plank doors. To the right, there is a narrower pointed arch door opening with a drip mould and a ribbed, studded door. The left return of the building displays two 2-light Gothic traceried pointed arch windows. The forecourt is enclosed by plain wrought iron railings.
Local climate
The Old Forge and Forecourt Railing receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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