Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
calm-cinder-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Smithy Cottage, West Felton
OS grid reference
SJ 365 280
Coordinates
52.84582, -2.94408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with later additions and alterations, located in Rednal, West Felton. The building features a roughcast timber frame and a slate roof, which has an integral end stack on the right that was rebuilt in 20th-century red brick. It has a two-cell plan and is one storey high with a gable-lit attic. There are 19th-century casement windows on the left and right of a mid-20th-century glazed door, along with a small top-hung 20th-century casement on the far left. At the rear on the right, there is a roughcast brick lean-to.

Inside, there is a timber-framed partition wall with light panels in the left room. The right room features a chamfered spine beam and joists. A large stack includes an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. To the left of the stack, there is an oak winder staircase with plain 18th-century balusters leading to the rail on the first floor. The roof is a single-purlin type with an exposed central collar and tie beam truss.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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