Number 2 and Adjoining Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. House, smithy.

Number 2 and Adjoining Smithy

WRENN ID
silver-shingle-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1985
Type
House, smithy
OS grid reference
SJ 541 092
Coordinates
52.67917, -2.67892
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 2 and the adjoining smithy is a house and smithy built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a gable-lit attic, with a plinth, a plat band, and a dentil brick eaves cornice. At the rear left, there is a stack with two diagonal brick shafts. The front has two windows; the first-floor windows are late 19th-century wooden cross casements, while the ground-floor windows are glazing bar sashes, both with chamfered reveals and segmental gauged heads. The central entrance features a four flush-panelled door with chamfered reveals and a three-part segmental-headed overlight.

To the left, there is a one-storey smithy that has a dentil brick eaves cornice and verge, an integral brick end stack to the left, and a brick stack at the rear. The smithy has a three-light window to the left with chamfered reveals and a segmental head, and a two-leaf boarded door to the right, also with chamfered reveals and a segmental head. Inside the smithy, there are two brick hearths; the rear hearth retains a large leather bellows, while the left hearth has a cast iron ash-cover on the outside wall. The interior also includes tool racks, benches, and wooden blocks, as well as a tie-beam roof truss with raking queen struts.

Local climate

Number 2 and Adjoining Smithy receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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