The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Estate cottage.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- fallen-fireplace-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Twites Corner, the Saxhams
- OS grid reference
- TL 789 634
- Coordinates
- 52.24061, 0.61884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a mid-19th century estate cottage featuring Gothic detailing. It stands two storeys tall with red brick walls and a fish-scale slated roof. The roof has oversailing verges with bargeboards that have undulating soffits. Notable features include cream terracotta drum-type chimney shafts with diaper ornament set on a red brick base. The cottage has wrought iron small-pane casements, with those on the first floor having gabled dormer heads. There is a three-sided corner entrance porch with a gabled roof and a boarded door that has an oval fanlight above it.
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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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