Old Smithy House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Former blacksmith's cottage.
Old Smithy House
- WRENN ID
- swift-portal-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Former blacksmith's cottage
- Address
- Old Smithy House, the Street, Lyng, Norfolk, NR9 5AL
- OS grid reference
- TG 068 178
- Coordinates
- 52.71846, 1.06144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Smithy House is a former blacksmith's cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and has pantile roofs. The building features two storeys and a symmetrical facade with four windows and a central doorway flanked by rusticated giant pilasters. The original two-light windows have metal casements, while the ground floor windows include transoms and skewback arches. There is a plain platband and a moulded brick cornice above. The front door is panelled and has corner paterae on the door case. A later porch has a zinc tent roof, a ball finial, and fretted eaves detail supported by chamfered posts. The building also has a single gable-end stack. The workshop extension is not of special interest.
Local climate
Old Smithy House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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