Smithy Cottage, The Forge, and Former Smithy Adjoining to North is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Pair of houses and smithy. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage, The Forge, and Former Smithy Adjoining to North
- WRENN ID
- quartered-lime-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Pair of houses and smithy
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, The Forge, and Former Smithy Adjoining to North, LA6 1AS
- OS grid reference
- SD 582 721
- Coordinates
- 54.14379, -2.64006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses and a former smithy, built around 1817. The buildings are constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. They are two storeys high. The windows and doors have simple stone surrounds. Smithy Cottage, on the left, has a ground-floor window with glazing bars, with one pane able to open. The first floor has two windows, one with a six-pane sash and the other with a four-pane sash. There is a door on the right side. A chimney is located in the left-hand gable. The Forge is a single bay wide and contains windows with small panes, some of which open as casements. A door is positioned on the left side. A first-floor door, accessed by a short, external flight of stone steps set against the projecting wall of the smithy, is on the right. Chimneys are located on the left and in the wall of the smithy. The smithy has a wide opening on the left, supported by a curved timber lintel, which is open to the street. Above this opening is a blocked opening also with a timber lintel. To the right are a door and a window, both with plain reveals; the window has an external wooden shutter.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage, The Forge, and Former Smithy Adjoining to North sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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