The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Smithy. 1 related planning application.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- night-loggia-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Smithy, Farley, ST10 3BQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 067 442
- Coordinates
- 52.99555, -1.90033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a smithy building dating from 1780, which was remodelled in 1849 and repaired in 1979. It is constructed from coursed and squared freestone blocks featuring herringbone tooling, topped with a plain tile roof that has shaped tile bands, coped verges, and a ball finial on the left. The building has an ashlar ridge stack and integral end stacks. It is aligned north-east to south-west and consists of one storey and an attic, with a hollow chamfered eaves band.
The facade has four bays, including a two-leaf smithy door with a 20th-century cambered lintel and decorative strap hinges. There is a gabled break to the right of the centre, featuring a cambered arch door with an ogee moulded surround and an inserted datestone above inscribed "ABC/1979". In the attic, there is a two-light chamfer mullioned window with a rebated surround, and single-light ground floor windows on either side of the gabled break, both with chamfered surrounds. The 1962 provisional list noted two inscriptions over the doorway, "C.B. 1780" and "I.B. 1849", which have been removed and replaced by the current inscription.
Local climate
The Smithy receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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