The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- fallen-steeple-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Eyke Road, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, Campsey Ash, IP13 0PY
- OS grid reference
- TM 330 558
- Coordinates
- 52.15202, 1.40552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a 17th-century house with an attached smithy, now used as accommodation. It is located on Eyke Road in Campsey Ash. Originally named Smithy Cottage and located on Marlesford Road, the building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a hipped roof covered in plain tiles. The smithy section is weatherboarded with a pantiled roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic. It has a possible lobby entrance and a three-window front with 19th-century casement windows incorporating metal glazing bars. One window has boarded shutters, and a modern boarded door is present. A red brick stack rises from the ridge of the roof. The interior reveals the timber frame, with stop-chamfered main beams and run-out stops.
Local climate
The Old Smithy sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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