The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1990. Smithy.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- graven-marble-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1990
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Wood Lane, Aswarby and Swarby
- OS grid reference
- TF 067 400
- Coordinates
- 52.94714, -0.41286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a former smithy, now used as a store, built in 1846 for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a slate roof and featuring two gable stacks. The building has a single-storey, three-bay front, with the middle bay being advanced and gabled. There is a central planked door flanked by single fixed plain lights, and all openings have segmental arched heads. Above the door, an ashlar panel displays a large horseshoe and the date 1846. To the left, there is a slightly recessed shoeing bay with double planked doors and a segmental ashlar inner arch.
Local climate
The Old Smithy sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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