Henbury Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. Smithy. 4 related planning applications.
Henbury Smithy
- WRENN ID
- moated-niche-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- Henbury Smithy, 1 and 2, Fanshawe Lane, SK11 9LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 862 727
- Coordinates
- 53.25121, -2.20711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Henbury Smithy consists of two cottages that were formerly a smithy and a blacksmith's cottage, dating from the mid to late 18th century. The building is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall with a slightly projecting brick plinth at the front. The facade features three bays with four-centered arches that were originally part of the smithy but are now bricked up, replaced by 2-light casement windows.
At the corners and between the bays, there are pilasters that act as clasping buttresses, topped with moulded brick capitals at the level of the first-floor window sills. Sunken arched panels are located between these pilasters. The left cottage section includes a cambered-headed doorway on the right and a 2-light casement window on the left, with a similar 2-light casement window on the first floor. All the windows are 20th-century replacements. The two right-hand smithy arches show signs of having been rebuilt, and there is a 20th-century addition at the rear.
Local climate
Henbury Smithy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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