Monknash Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Forge.

Monknash Forge

WRENN ID
lapsed-pinnacle-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Forge
Address
Monknash Forge, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
OS grid reference
SS 918 707
Coordinates
51.42581, -3.55639
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Monknash Forge is a single-storey rectangular building constructed from local lias limestone rubble, featuring dressed stone quoins and voussoirs. The roof is covered with asbestos sheeting. On the main south-east elevation, there is a shuttered window opening on the left side and a large horse doorway on the right. The horse doorway has an almost flat arch with a voussoir head and is fitted with plank doors. The north-east gable wall includes a boarded window with a wooden lintel and a blocked slit opening near the ground, both of which are currently covered in ivy, as is the south-east gable. The rear elevation has a small boarded window located in the center. The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey.

Local climate

Monknash Forge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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