The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House, smithy.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- shifting-mortar-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Westwick Road, Westwick, DL12 8UP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 070 155
- Coordinates
- 54.53493, -1.8922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a house with an attached smithy located on the north side of Westwick Road. It dates from the early 19th century, with some later 19th-century window features. The building is primarily constructed of snecked sandstone, featuring dressed alternate quoins, and has roofs made of sandstone flags with corniced stacks of dressed sandstone.
The two-storey, three-bay house has a central boarded door and six-pane sash windows, each with tooled lintels and raised sills. The single-storey, two-bay smithy has a boarded door set under a segmental arch with dressed voussoirs to the left, and a boarded window under a similar but smaller arch to the right. Both sections have moderately-pitched roofs with flat-coped gables. The house includes two gable stacks, while the smithy has one gable stack on the right.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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