Number 18 and Adjacent Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. House, smithy. 2 related planning applications.

Number 18 and Adjacent Old Smithy

WRENN ID
scattered-tower-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House, smithy
Address
Number 18 and Adjacent Old Smithy, Acklington Village, NE65 9BW
OS grid reference
NU 228 019
Coordinates
55.31107, -1.64093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 18 and the adjacent old smithy is a house and smithy located in Acklington Village. The smithy and the ground floor of the east part of the house date from the 18th century, while the house was enlarged in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from roughly-coursed rubble with tooled dressings and features cut quoins on the house. It has a Welsh slate roof with brick stacks and is arranged in an overall L-plan.

The house has two storeys and consists of one bay on the left and one bay on the right. The projecting left bay features paired 6-pane casement windows and a slit beneath a coped gable supported by moulded kneelers. There is a rendered lateral stack on the left return and similar fenestration along with a renewed door on the two-bay right return. The right bay displays similar windows and a coped gable on moulded kneelers, with the right end stack rebuilt on an old base.

Attached to the right is a single-storey smithy, which includes a boarded door, two stable doors, and a window with blacksmith's glazing. The coped right gable has an old brick end stack with a chamfered stone cap, and there is a stable door at the rear of the smithy. All openings are framed with chamfered surrounds.

The interior has not been inspected in detail, but remnants of the old forge are still present.

Local climate

Number 18 and Adjacent Old Smithy receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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