Faringdon Village Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1990. Forge.
Faringdon Village Smithy
- WRENN ID
- drifting-mullion-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1990
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- Faringdon Village Smithy, Lechlade Road, Buscot
- OS grid reference
- SU 230 974
- Coordinates
- 51.67579, -1.66778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Faringdon Village Smithy is a purpose-built forge constructed around 1890, designed in the Cotswold vernacular style by Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates. The building features coursed rubble stone with stone dressings, a gabled stone tiled roof, and a central stone stack. It is a single storey with two bays positioned at right angles to the road. The smithy has a double door cart entrance and a subsidiary doorway. The north gable end facing the road has a coursed stone base, with weatherboarding above and louvres in the apex of the gable. There are two wood mullioned lights with leaded glazing on one side and four on the other.
Local climate
Faringdon Village 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 lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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.
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