Smith House Cottage and Smith House Lodge and linking stable block is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Cottage, lodge, stable block. 3 related planning applications.
Smith House Cottage and Smith House Lodge and linking stable block
- WRENN ID
- broken-bastion-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage, lodge, stable block
- Address
- Smith House Cottage and Smith House Lodge and linking stable block, 129 and 131, Smith House Lane, HX3 8XA
- OS grid reference
- SE 142 246
- Coordinates
- 53.71832, -1.78479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This long range, originally a stable block to the east of Smith House, now forms two dwellings and a garage. It dates from the mid-18th century, with alterations in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof.
The two-storey cottage, located on the left, retains original late 18th-century, thin, flat-faced mullioned windows of four lights with a three-light window above each bay. A large modern French window has been inserted, with a matching three-light mullioned window above. A gable stack is present.
The single-storey stable range has a doorway with monolithic jambs, three cross-windows, and two gabled attic dormers in the roof. A cart entry has a segmental arch which rises into a large gabled dormer containing a stepped light of 2/4 recessed, flat-faced mullions with square reveals. The apex of the dormer has a square block surmounted by a ball finial set with a decorative wrought iron and brass weather vane. A smaller, similar feature is located to the right of the cart entry in the wall. Quoins define the angles.
The return wall fronts the lane and includes a two-storey gabled house (Smith House Lodge) with early 20th-century detailing. This section retains flat-faced mullioned windows, mainly of three lights to each floor and features false timber framing, oversailing eaves with plain bargeboards.
The building is listed for group value with Smith House.
Local climate
Smith House Cottage and Smith House Lodge and linking stable block 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 greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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