Blacksmiths Shop and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. A C19 Blacksmiths shop, cottage.
Blacksmiths Shop and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pavement-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Blacksmiths shop, cottage
- Address
- Blacksmiths Shop and Cottage, Probus
- OS grid reference
- SW 899 478
- Coordinates
- 50.29297, -4.95101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blacksmiths Shop and Cottage is an early to mid 19th century building located in Probus. It is constructed from shale rubble with granite dressings, featuring a scantle slate roof and brick chimneys. The structure consists of a one-room smithy shop and a double-depth cottage.
The smithy shop, situated at the upper end to the left, is a single storey and has a wide doorway with a monolithic granite jamb on the left and granite jambstones on the right, topped with a wooden lintel. It has double doors with a stable door to the left, and the only window is a two-light casement with small panes set in a slightly arched opening, also with granite jambstones and voussoirs. A brick chimney is positioned over the ridge to the right.
The two-storey cottage shares the same roof and curves back to follow the line of the road. It has a door to the left and a wide window to the right, which features a 20th-century three-light casement in an opening similar to that of the shop window. On the first floor, a 12-pane sash window is centrally placed above the ground floor window. The roof of the cottage adjoins the gables of the adjacent buildings.
Local climate
Blacksmiths Shop and Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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