The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. A C18 Farm building.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stronghold-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- The Smithy, Manchester Road, Plumley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 710 761
- Coordinates
- 53.28118, -2.43572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is an early 18th-century farm building located on Manchester Road in Plumley. It features a timber frame with rendered infill and a thatched roof, and is a single storey in height. The front facing the road has a brick plinth and consists of nine cells of small framing, with a door positioned to the right of the center and two one-light windows. The left-hand gable end displays four by two cells of small framing, which includes angle braces and a v-strut to the gable.
Local climate
The Smithy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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