The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Smithy. 1 related planning application.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- deep-cobble-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Smithy, the Green, Thriplow and Heathfield, SG8 7QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 436 466
- Coordinates
- 52.09973, 0.09613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a mid-19th century smithy located in Thriplow on The Green. It is constructed of clunch with gault brick dressings, featuring a dentil eaves cornice and a stack. Above the eaves and on the lean-to, it is weatherboarded with a pantiled half-hipped roof. The building is single storey and has a cartshed lean-to at the east end. There is a boarded stable door on the right side with a shuttered window next to it, and a similar window on the left side. The cartshed has a double boarded door. A slate plaque on the building reads, "This Smithy presented to Thriplow in year AD 1964 by Robert J. Younger Esq formerly of Thriplow Place." The Smithy was last in use around 1960.
Local climate
The Smithy sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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