The Blacksmiths Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Blacksmith's shop. 2 related planning applications.

The Blacksmiths Shop

WRENN ID
far-chimney-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Blacksmith's shop
Address
The Blacksmiths Shop, Gweek, TR12 6UA
OS grid reference
SW 705 267
Coordinates
50.09687, -5.20891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Blacksmith's Shop is a blacksmith's shop dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features walls made of killas rubble with granite dressings and has a Roman tile roof with gable ends. The building has a rectangular plan with the forge located at the right-hand end. It is a single-storey structure. The east front includes a central shuttered window and a doorway on the left, which has granite monolithic jambs; the right-hand jamb also serves as the jamb for the window opening. The doorway has an old ledged door and old shutters. Inside, there is a large granite fireplace at the right-hand end, and at the front of the building, there is a blacksmith's iron moulding cone.

Local climate

The Blacksmiths Shop receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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