The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Forge/shop.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- lone-latch-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Forge/shop
- Address
- The Smithy, Saint David's Bridge, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09575, 0.53766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a 18th-century forge that has been converted into a shop. It features a timber-framed structure with a brick catslide extension on the front right. The roof is plain tiled, half-hipped to the right with a gabled step to the left, and includes a large brick stack, which is also present at the rear right. There is an outshut with a catslide roof on the front right. The building is two storeys tall and has irregular window arrangements, including one triple casement on the first floor to the left, with additional casements on the front and left return face of the outshut. On the ground floor, there is a half-glazed door to the left, flanked by non-opening windows. Inside, the timber frame of thin scantling is still visible, and there is a forge hearth located on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Smithy receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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