The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Forge. 1 related planning application.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- sombre-ledge-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1998
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Forge, Pont-Y-Blew, Chirk, LL14 5BH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 311 384
- Coordinates
- 52.93898, -3.02638
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Forge is a long, single-storey building with attics, constructed with a timber frame. The front is finished with colourwashed brick and features a slate roof. The timber framing is exposed on the gable facing the road. It has 19th-century timber 2-light windows set in openings with segmental heads, and there is an open timber-framed porch over a glazed door. At the eastern end, there is a second glazed door from the 20th century. The building includes four small gabled dormers with cut bargeboards, a central brick stack, and additional stacks at both ends on the lower slopes of the roof. There is also a lean-to at the western end.
Local climate
The Forge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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