Attached Cottage South of the Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Cottage.

Attached Cottage South of the Smithy

WRENN ID
vast-bonework-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Attached Cottage South of the Smithy, Farley
OS grid reference
SK 067 442
Coordinates
52.9955, -1.90036
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an attached cottage located south of The Smithy, built in 1780 and remodeled in 1849. It features coursed and squared freestone blocks with herringbone tooling and a plain tile roof adorned with shaped tile bands. The cottage has an ashlar ridge stack and is aligned north-east to south-west, facing north-west. It is one storey with an attic and consists of about two bays. The ground floor has a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a rebated surround on the right, while the central gabled dormer includes a two-light chamfered mullioned window. To the left, there is a door with a cambered head and an ogee moulded surround.

Local climate

Attached Cottage South of 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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