The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1985. Cottage, smithy. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- second-trefoil-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage, smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Farnborough Village, OX12 8NX
- OS grid reference
- SU 432 820
- Coordinates
- 51.53554, -1.378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a cottage that was originally a smithy, dating from the late 17th century and altered in the 19th century. It is built of painted brick with some exposed timber framing and has tiled roofs. The building has a rectangular plan with two cross gables on the south side. It is one and a half storeys high, featuring a small gabled dormer situated between the gables and a ridge chimney located at the west end of the roof.
On the south elevation, to the left, there is a one-storey barn that has been converted into a garage, complete with a hipped cantilevered roof over boarded doors. To the right is the cottage itself, which has four two-light casements with cambered heads on the ground floor, and one three-light casement in each gable. Between the first and second windows from the left, there is a boarded stable-type door.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings