Old Smithy and Attached House is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1972. A C19 House, smithy. 3 related planning applications.
Old Smithy and Attached House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cornice-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1972
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- Old Smithy and Attached House, 27, Botanic Road, PR9 7NG
- OS grid reference
- SD 363 184
- Coordinates
- 53.65824, -2.96508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy and attached house is a building located on Botanic Road in Churchtown, Southport. It is likely from the early 19th century and has undergone some alterations. The structure is made of brown brick, which has been whitewashed on the facade, and features slate roofs on two levels.
The house is a double-depth, single-fronted design with the former smithy attached to the right. The two-storey house has a single window and a segmental-headed doorway on the left, which contains a board door. There are unhorned sash windows on both floors, with an 8/8 configuration on the ground floor and a 4/8 configuration above. A gable chimney is located to the left of the house.
The attached smithy is a single-storey building with a two-window range. It has a small front outshut that is flush with the house, featuring an altered square window. The main range of the smithy is set back and includes a wide doorway with a board door and a small oblong window to the right, which has board shutters. There is a tall gable chimney on the right side of the smithy and another attached to the gable wall of the house.
The property forms a group with nearby buildings, including Nos 17-23 to the left, Nos 29-31A to the right, No.1 Churchgate to the rear and right, and Nos 2-6 Back Botanic Road opposite.
Local climate
Old Smithy and Attached House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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