Former Smithy, South of Smithy Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. A Late C19 Smithy. 1 related planning application.

Former Smithy, South of Smithy Farm

WRENN ID
waning-lantern-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Smithy
Address
Former Smithy, South of Smithy Farm, Hill Road, Eaton and Eccleston, CH4 9HG
OS grid reference
SJ 410 624
Coordinates
53.15615, -2.8824
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former smithy, located south of Smithy Farm, is a late 19th-century building commissioned by the first Duke of Westminster. It is a simple rectangular, single-storey structure made of squared snecked red sandstone, topped with a gabled slate roof and featuring two brick chimneys. The front of the building has a pair of mullioned windows and boarded double doors leading into the smithy, with additional mullioned windows on the ends. The exposed shaped purlin ends add to its architectural character. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Former Smithy, South of Smithy Farm receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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