Claughton Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Claughton Smithy
- WRENN ID
- night-gravel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Claughton Smithy, Smithy Lane, PR3 0QJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 517 429
- Coordinates
- 53.88079, -2.735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claughton Smithy is a house dating from the late 17th century, which has been altered, and it includes a former smithy from the 19th century. The building is constructed of slobbered rubble and features a slate roof. The house consists of two bays, with rebated and chamfered mullioned windows of three and two lights on the ground floor, and windows with plain reveals on the first floor. There is a chamfered fire window on the left side. The gable chimneys have brick caps, and a projecting brick weathering on the left-hand (east) gable wall indicates that a lower building with a thatched roof may have once been attached.
The single-storey smithy now connects to the house under a monopitch roof, extending to both the north and south of the main building. Its east wall features a wide doorway with quoined reveals and windows with plain reveals. The house is accessed through a porch at the rear, which leads to a baffle entry against a former firehood. Inside, the chamfered and stopped bressumer remains in place, supporting two chamfered and stopped axial main joists.
Local climate
Claughton Smithy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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