The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Smithy.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- quiet-crypt-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Thetford Road, Fakenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TL 910 764
- Coordinates
- 52.35315, 0.80334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a village smithy, now serving as garages for Pump Green Cottage. It dates from the early 19th century and is a single-storey building constructed of red brick. The roof is fully hipped and covered with black glazed double Roman tiles, featuring a ridge adorned with ornamental tiles and pierced semi-circular cresting. The front of the building has three 'Romanesque' arches, with flat pilasters and four-centred arched heads. There are recessed panels that contain late 20th-century windows set in older openings, which have cambered heads and rectangular hood-moulds. The northernmost archway was originally open and formed the 'traverse' of the smithy, which was in operation until the 1930s.
Local climate
The Old Smithy sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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