Oulton Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. House, smithy.
Oulton Smithy
- WRENN ID
- dusk-doorway-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- Oulton Smithy, Rushton Lane, Little Budworth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 585 651
- Coordinates
- 53.18188, -2.62191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oulton Smithy is a house and smithy located in Little Budworth, built in a colour-washed English garden wall bond style with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped plan. The entrance front features two bays, with a central doorway flanked by 3-light cambered headed casement windows on the ground floor and 3-light casement windows on the first floor. There is a decorated band below the eaves with projecting headers, and two gable chimney stacks. To the left of the rear, there is a projecting single-storey wing.
Local climate
Oulton Smithy receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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