The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- heavy-brick-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Smithy, 70, Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield
- OS grid reference
- SP 118 953
- Coordinates
- 52.55564, -1.82737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy, located at 70 Birmingham Road, is a building with a medieval core featuring a cruck timber frame that spans three bays. The front wall is constructed partly of 15th century sandstone ashlar and partly of 19th century red brick. It includes casement windows, with one ground floor window being a three-light mullioned design. The building has an old tiled roof and a stone chimney stack that has been restored in red brick. For further details, see Chatwin and Harcourt's "The Bishop Vesey Houses," pages 5-6.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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