Former Smithy South of Old Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Smithy, house.
Former Smithy South of Old Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-courtyard-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- Smithy, house
- Address
- Former Smithy South of Old Park Farmhouse, A689, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 112 363
- Coordinates
- 54.72163, -1.8265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former smithy south of Old Park Farmhouse is a 17th-century building. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a stone-flagged roof with gable coping. The structure is one storey high and has two windows. There is a thin wood lintel above a central empty door, with inserted windows on either side. The right gable has coping on moulded kneelers and an external stepped chimney stack that is truncated. The left return gable includes a blocked single-chamfered two-light stone-mullioned window, which has vertical iron bars in the gable peak. Inside, there are pegged tie-beam trusses. At the time of the survey, the building was empty and in a derelict state.
Local climate
Former Smithy South of Old Park Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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