Spurstow Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Smithy.
Spurstow Smithy
- WRENN ID
- hushed-iron-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- SJ 565 569
- Coordinates
- 53.10826, -2.65103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spurstow Smithy is a smithy built around 1870 as part of the Crewe Estate. It is constructed from red brick in English Garden Wall Bond and features a blue tile roof. The building is single storey and consists of four bays, with 2-light cast iron lattice windows that have stone sills and segmental arches. The carriage opening is distinguished by bullnosed quoins, corbels, and moulded stone padstones that support a timber opening lintel. The roof has half-hipped gables, courses of shaped tiles, and diamond-shaped ridge ventilators. The gable overhangs reveal exposed plate and purlin ends, and there is a west gable stack with a heavy brick cap. An east gable features a metal finial with the Crewe Estate emblem.
Inside, the west forge is still operational, while the flue of the east forge leads to the underside of the roof, although the stack has been removed and the opening has been tiled over. A cross-wall separates the forge from the shoeing areas, and the roof is supported by queen-post trusses.
Local climate
Spurstow 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 lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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