Smithy Circa 200 Metres North of Low Shipley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Smithy. 1 related planning application.

Smithy Circa 200 Metres North of Low Shipley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muted-zinc-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Smithy
OS grid reference
NZ 116 340
Coordinates
54.70172, -1.82134
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a smithy and loose-box located approximately 200 metres north of Low Shipley Farmhouse, likely dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with quoins and features a pantiled roof with a brick chimney. The structure is single-storey and consists of three bays.

On the left side, there is a boarded door beneath a wooden lintel at the eaves. The central door is partly blocked and has an old wooden lintel, with the upper half of a Dutch door remaining as a shutter, featuring horizontal planks. A small square window for the loose box has a rough thin stone lintel and sill. The left end of the building has a low square chimney on the ridge, while the right return includes an old wooden lintel over a boarded door that is approximately 0.4 metres lower than the opening. At the rear, there is a wide window that is partly glazed and partly boarded, also under a wooden lintel.

Inside, the smithy features a full-height circular rubble fire-hood with some brick patching, as well as a projecting forge with a stone lintel and renewed brick piers.

Local climate

Smithy Circa 200 Metres North of Low Shipley 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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