The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Smithy.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- still-passage-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Smithy, Hepscott
- OS grid reference
- NZ 223 841
- Coordinates
- 55.15155, -1.65097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a smithy or forge with an attached stable, built in 1711, and has undergone minor alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed stone and features pantile roofs with raised coped gables. The building is single storey.
The south-west front has a slightly higher forge on the right, which includes a single plank door and a single 2-light window with original glazing and an external plank shutter. To the left is the slightly lower stable, which has late 20th-century double plank doors, and on the left return gable wall, there is a single plank door.
Inside the smithy, there is a brick arched forge on the gable wall, although the external chimney stack has been removed. A large set of bellows still remains beside the hearth. The roof features a single central pine collar truss and original front purlins.
Local climate
The 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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