Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. House.

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
first-steel-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Smithy Cottage, Village Road, Hilton
OS grid reference
ST 780 030
Coordinates
50.82687, -2.31358
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage is a detached house, likely built in the 18th century and enlarged around 1977. The cottage features flint walls with brick dressings that are colourwashed, and it has a hipped thatched roof with a brick stack at the left end of the original section. The building is two storeys high. The original section has a part-glazed door located in a thatched brick porch. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with glazing bars, and the first floor has two similar windows. At the left end, there is a large 20th-century extension that forms an L-shaped plan and is constructed to match the original building. This extension includes French doors on the ground floor and a half dormer with glazing bars in the attic.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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