The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- plain-cobble-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Smithy, A338, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- OS grid reference
- SU 150 095
- Coordinates
- 50.8855, -1.78798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a house dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick with a pebbledashed finish and features a thatched roof. The building is two stories high and has three bays, with an additional bay added to the road end, and a wing at the rear that runs along the road.
The front of the house has a half-hipped brick porch located to the road side of the center. In each bay, except for the road bay, there are 1, 2, or 3-light segmental head casements, with 2 or 3-light eyebrow dormers above them. The roof is half-hipped, and there are stacks at each end of the original part of the building. The road end features 2-light segmental head casements on both floors of the gable. The set-back wing has a swept-down verandah supported by posts, with a 2-light casement underneath and a 3-light eyebrow dormer above. The roof of this wing is also half-hipped and includes a stack on the ridge.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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