Smithy and Attached Outbuildings 10 Metres to East of Oldhay Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Smithy, store, outbuildings.

Smithy and Attached Outbuildings 10 Metres to East of Oldhay Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sleeping-column-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1988
Type
Smithy, store, outbuildings
OS grid reference
SX 237 821
Coordinates
50.61263, -4.49227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a smithy and attached outbuildings located 10 metres east of Oldhay Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from stone rubble with granite dressings and features rag slate roofs. The smithy is on the left with gable ends, while the central outbuilding has a hipped end on the right, and the right-hand outbuilding is unroofed.

The layout consists of a row of three buildings, each with a one-room plan. The smithy on the left includes a fireplace at the left end and an entrance on the right. The central outbuilding has a wide opening near the centre and a ventilation slit to the right. The roofless building on the right has an entrance on the left and dressed granite reset around the window on the right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Smithy and Attached Outbuildings 10 Metres to East of Oldhay Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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