Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Smithy.

Old Smithy

WRENN ID
floating-spire-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Smithy
Address
Old Smithy, South End, Longhoughton
OS grid reference
NU 242 148
Coordinates
55.42738, -1.61904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Smithy is a smithy building, likely dating from the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with cut quoins and dressings, featuring synthetic blue slates on the western part and Welsh slates on the southern part. The building has an old brick stack set on a stone base and is roughly L-shaped, consisting of a single storey.

The left (southern) section has two blacksmith's windows with chamfered surrounds and slightly projecting sills, along with a blocked opening to the left. There is an iron casting ring set in the pavement nearby. A similar window is found on the left return, and there are two more at the rear. The slightly taller right (western) section features a stable door with a blacksmith's window to the right. The right end gable has 19th-century coping on earlier reverse-stepped stonework, along with a banded stack on an older base. At the rear, there are two blacksmith's windows with unchamfered surrounds.

Local climate

Old Smithy receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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