The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Smithy.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- lost-hinge-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Smithy, Berkswich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 956 209
- Coordinates
- 52.78634, -2.06596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a late 19th-century brick building located in Baswich. It features a plain tile roof with a single ridge and a gable brick stack. The eaves are decorated with dentillated red and blue bricks. This single-storey structure has a slightly projecting gabled entrance, which includes double plank doors with ashlar hinge blocks and a segmental head. Above the entrance, there is a small window in the gable with an ashlar surround. To the left of the entrance, there is a single shuttered opening with a segmental head.
Local climate
The Smithy receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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