Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1970. A Post-medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-passage-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, 44, Church Street, Great Budworth, CW9 6HL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 664 776
- Coordinates
- 53.2946, -2.50537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage that has been recased in brown brick, likely in the mid-19th century. It features English garden wall bond brickwork and a clay tile roof. The building is one storey plus an attic and consists of three rooms, with a flush front gable over the middle room. The lower storey has three small four-pane casements, while the front gable includes a three-light wood-mullioned casement. There is an outshut against the left end and a ridge chimney situated between the central and right rooms. A former doorway, located just to the right of the chimney, has been bricked up, and the entrance is now through the left outshut. The rear fenestration has been altered.
Inside, the layout has been modified to include an altered lobby-entrance plan. There is a complete oak frame between the central and left rooms, with the faces of the posts and rails in the left room left unwrought, and some timbers have been reused. The cottage features stop-chamfered oak beams, and the staircase has been replaced.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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