The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. House.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- spare-steeple-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth MP: Rachel Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Church Lane, Middleton
- OS grid reference
- SP 175 982
- Coordinates
- 52.58188, -1.74291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a 17th-century house located on Middleton Church Lane. It features a timber-framed structure with brick infill panels and some areas of brick rebuilding, topped with a plain tile roof and a brick ridge stack. The building has a three-cell baffle-entry plan, oriented east-west and facing north. It stands two storeys high, with two tiers of square panels set on a high brick plinth, supported by straight braces. There is a 20th-century door and porch to the left of the center, and a glazing bar casement window to the right of the center. To the left, there is a gabled two-storey extension, while a flat-roofed extension is situated to the right of it. Inside, the house features chamfered and stopped ceiling beams and joists, a large open fireplace with a timber bressumer, and queen strut roof trusses, with one exposed in the right-hand gable.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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