Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Smithy.
Smithy
- WRENN ID
- muted-attic-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- Smithy, Neston Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 303 808
- Coordinates
- 53.32039, -3.04733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy, built in 1905 by J. Lomax Simpson, is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Neston Road in Thornton Hough. This single-storey structure features a timber-frame design set on a stone base, topped with a hipped stone slate roof that includes gablets. The building consists of four bays, with the central bays recessed behind continuous bracketed eaves, resembling the form of a Wealden house.
The windows are adorned with leaded glazing; the central bays have three-light windows, while the first bay features a three-light window, and the fourth bay has a projecting five-light window with a weatherboard gable. The central entrance and the entrance to the first bay both have Tudor-style heads and paired plank doors with strap hinges. A stone cross-axial stack is present, and the returns of the building include louvred gablets. The left return has a swept cat-slide roof, while the right return features a projecting gabled four-light window and a three-light window.
At the rear, there is a stone lateral stack, a two-light window, and an entrance. The forecourt is marked by a sign on a post and a spreading chestnut tree.
Local climate
Smithy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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