Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1984. Cottage.

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
fallow-spire-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Smithy Cottage, Norbury
OS grid reference
SO 377 916
Coordinates
52.5192, -2.91853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage is a cottage and former smithy, likely built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble and features a slate roof with an integral end stack on the left, which has dripstones and a brick capping. The building has two storeys and four windows, including those above the smithy on the right, which are near flush frame 19th-century casements. There is a plain boarded door located under the second window from the left, providing access to the smithy, and a stable-type door to the right. A former horses' entrance in a slightly later rubblestone addition to the right has been blocked. To the left of the cottage, there is a single-storey mid-19th-century addition. The smithy itself does not retain any equipment.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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