The White House and the Smithy with Attached Blacksmiths Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. Residential cottages.
The White House and the Smithy with Attached Blacksmiths Shop
- WRENN ID
- sunken-plaster-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1968
- Type
- Residential cottages
- OS grid reference
- SO 363 928
- Coordinates
- 52.52997, -2.93963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House and The Smithy with attached blacksmith's shop is a pair of labourer's cottages and an attached smithy, dating from the mid-19th century. A central plastered datestone is inscribed with "WM". The cottages have roughcast rubblestone walls and a slate roof featuring a shared late 19th-century brick ridge stack from 1770. The building is two storeys high and has two multi-paned mid-19th-century metal casements with Gothic glazing. The ground floor windows are set under cambered heads, and there are entrances to the left and right through 19th-century ledged doors, each sheltered by 20th-century porches. Inside, both cottages retain massive beams, heavy joists, and late 19th-century cast iron ranges in their ground floor fireplaces. The blacksmith's shop is attached to the right end of The Smithy and is likely from the mid-19th century as well. It features random limestone rubble, a slate roof, and a brick end stack. The entrance is through double doors on the left, with a window and hatch on the right. The interior includes an anvil, two forges, pear-shaped bellows, two vices, and other equipment, and the shop is still in occasional use.
Local climate
The White House and the Smithy with Attached Blacksmiths Shop 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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