Ford Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Smithy.
Ford Smithy
- WRENN ID
- high-keystone-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NT 948 376
- Coordinates
- 55.63228, -2.08351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Smithy is a smithy built in 1863 for the Marchioness of Waterford. It is constructed from snecked stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and has three bays. The front includes boarded double doors set within a raised horseshoe-shaped surround. To the left, there is a three-light window, while to the right, there is a two-light window with shuttered lower sections and four-pane casements above. The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack and a stack at the left end. On the left gable, there is a datestone displaying the monogram of Lady Waterford.
Local climate
Ford Smithy receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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