Blacksmith Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. House.
Blacksmith Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-latch-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blacksmith Cottage, 2, Blacksmith Lane, Kelham
- OS grid reference
- SK 774 557
- Coordinates
- 53.09311, -0.84426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmith Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of timber framing and brick, featuring brick nogging and rendering, with a steep pitched hipped and gabled pantile roof. The building has a brick plinth and two ridge stacks. It stands two storeys tall and has three main bays plus a single bay. The main west front features an off-centre door flanked by single Yorkshire sash windows, with a single casement window beyond. Above, there are two Yorkshire sashes and a single casement window. To the left, there is a single-storey, single-bay extension made of brick with a pantile roof, rebated eaves, and a coped gable with kneelers. The north gable has a central door. At the rear, there is a continuous outshut with a door to the right, flanked on the left by two Yorkshire sashes and on the right by a 20th-century casement window.
Local climate
Blacksmith Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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