Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Peckforton Road, Beeston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 541 586
- Coordinates
- 53.12334, -2.68636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century. It is timber framed with rendered infill and has a plain tiled roof. The building features a baffle entry plan and is two storeys high. The entrance front has a stone plinth that supports 14 by 2 cells of small framing, with angle braces on the left, right, and four pairs in the centre. There is a door located to the right of centre, with two 3-light 19th-century casement windows to the left and one to the right. The first floor includes three 2-light gabled dormers, each with decorative framing in the gables. There are ridge stacks positioned at the right of centre and on the left. The right gable end displays cruck blades that have been partially renewed, along with a collar and yoke. The left gable end features a brick chimney stack with offsets.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage 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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