Smith's Cottage Adjoining Forge Mews to the East and Approximately 10 Metres North of the Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Cottage.
Smith's Cottage Adjoining Forge Mews to the East and Approximately 10 Metres North of the Old House
- WRENN ID
- last-bailey-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 979
- Coordinates
- 52.57482, -1.00216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smith's Cottage, located adjoining Forge Mews to the east and approximately 10 meters north of The Old House, is a cottage dating from around 1700. It is primarily timber framed, with a rubble stone plinth and red brick and mud nogging. The roof is covered with corrugated iron, with thatch in some areas, and features two brick ridge stacks, one of which is rendered. The left gable is brick coped, while the right gable is weather-boarded. The cottage has one and a half storeys and includes two three-light casements, with the right one having a cambered lintel. There is a two-light eyebrow dormer and a small one-light window on the first floor. The center and left sections consist of two and a half bays of large panel timber framing. On the left end, there is a two-light casement with a two-light horizontal sliding sash above, both with cambered lintels. A door is located at the rear, along with additional timber framing. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams, two inglenooks, a four-bay single-purlin tie-beam truss roof, and wide floorboards. Forge Mews is noted as not being of listable quality.
Local climate
Smith's Cottage Adjoining Forge Mews to the East and Approximately 10 Metres North of the Old House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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