Outbuilding and Old Smithy to East of Ovington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1987. Outbuilding, smithy. 1 related planning application.
Outbuilding and Old Smithy to East of Ovington Hall
- WRENN ID
- tilted-hall-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1987
- Type
- Outbuilding, smithy
- Address
- Outbuilding and Old Smithy to East of Ovington Hall, DL11 7BW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 130 147
- Coordinates
- 54.52743, -1.80056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a late 18th-century outbuilding and former smithy located to the east of Ovington Hall. It is constructed of rubble with cut dressings, featuring pantile roofs, with 20th-century asbestos sheets at the rear of the smithy section. Brick stacks are also present. The left-hand portion is two storeys high and one bay wide, displaying 20th-century boarded double doors, with a 6-pane casement window above, and a small stack at the right end. The one-storey, two-bay right-hand section was formerly a smithy and contains two boarded double doors on either side of a window with blacksmith’s glazing; a stack is located at the right end. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Outbuilding and Old Smithy to East of Ovington Hall receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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