Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Old Smithy

WRENN ID
odd-gutter-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Old Smithy, B3084, Awbridge, SO51 0HF
OS grid reference
SU 333 234
Coordinates
51.00969, -1.52601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Smithy is an 18th-century cottage with an added 19th-century bay. It is constructed of brick with tile hanging, an old plain tile roof, and a slate roof to the later bay. The original two-bay, one-and-a-half-story cottage has a lower-pitched roof on its right side. The front facade features a central planked door within a timber porch. To either side are two-light casement windows with segmental heads, and a two-light flat-roofed dormer window. The roof is half-hipped on the left, with a two-flued stack positioned above the door. The 19th-century bay to the right has a planked door within an open timber porch, a gabled bay window, and a 20th-century window above, all under a low-pitched roof with a stack in front of the ridge. To the left of the cottage stands the original 18th-century smithy, with three bays, a door in the center, and windows in the end bays; its roof is half-hipped at one end. The interior forge remains.

Local climate

Old Smithy receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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