Furnace Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 2000. Cottages.

Furnace Cottages

WRENN ID
riven-bonework-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 September 2000
Type
Cottages
Address
Furnace Cottages, Forge Road, Chepstow, Wye Valley, NP16 6TS
OS grid reference
SO 513 002
Coordinates
51.69875, -2.70555
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Furnace Cottages are a pair of cottages built from red sandstone rubble, topped with a concrete tiled roof. The buildings have undergone some restoration, making their original layout difficult to discern; notably, one chimney stack has been removed to below the roofline. The cottages are two storeys high and were likely originally three double-fronted cottages. There is a single-storey extension to the right, which features a door and a window. The main block has six windows and three doors, arranged as follows: window, door, window, door, window, window, door, window, with an additional window and door in the right wing. The doors are modern and part-glazed with elliptical heads. Two chimney stacks remain, one located between the first and second bays from the left and the other on the right gable. The rear elevation was not observed during the survey.

The interior was not accessible during the resurvey, but it is clear that changes have been made through conversion, and some of the original small rooms no longer exist.

Local climate

Furnace Cottages receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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