Smithy House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Cottage.
Smithy House
- WRENN ID
- woven-rubble-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smithy House, 4, Bucklesham Road, Kirton
- OS grid reference
- TM 277 396
- Coordinates
- 52.00888, 1.31742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy House is a cottage from the early 19th century. It is built of colour washed brick and features a plain tiled roof with a brick dentil course along the eaves. The gables have brick parapets and a central chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and has two window ranges, with mid 19th century sash windows that have segmental brick arches above the ground floor windows. There is a late gabled porch with a slated roof and a six-panelled entrance door.
Local climate
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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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