Smiths Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. Shop, industrial ruin.
Smiths Shop
- WRENN ID
- odd-quoin-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Shop, industrial ruin
- Address
- Smiths Shop, Perran Wharf, Mylor
- OS grid reference
- SW 776 384
- Coordinates
- 50.20446, -5.11772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smiths Shop is a ruin dating from the early 19th century. It features shale rubble walling with granite quoins, jambstones, and lintels. Originally, it was a large rectangular building that adjoined the Loam Shop and Moulding Shop to the west, both of which have since been removed, with the Green Sand Shop to the south. The outer walling is still standing, with a complete section along the north side. The building once housed a water-powered hammer mill and had a further water wheel beside the south wall, with much evidence of its former use still visible in the surviving walling.
The structure is two storeys high. The north wall includes two original doorways and an original vertical glazed window above the right-hand doorway. Inside the wall, there are stone piers at each bay.
Smiths Shop was part of the Perran Iron Foundry, which was established in 1791 and became the most significant foundry in Cornwall during its peak, known for manufacturing some of the largest beam engines ever constructed.
Local climate
Smiths Shop receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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