Smithwick Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Smithwick Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-gallery-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Smithwick Farmhouse, Cock Road, Rowde, SN10 1TA
- OS grid reference
- ST 969 621
- Coordinates
- 51.35886, -2.04587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century farmhouse, extended and altered around 1900. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has Bridgwater tiled, half-hipped roofs. Originally L-shaped, it now forms a T-plan. The north side of the building is rendered, while the left end, featuring a large side-wall stack, represents an extension. The main block has two storeys and an attic, with two flat dormers visible. It displays four first-floor windows with ovolo-moulded stone mullions, one of which is blank. The ground floor has large-paned casement windows and a more modern casement. A section of the west end wall reveals exposed old red brick. The east end is constructed of 19th-century red brick with cambered-head windows. The south return wall has been roughcast. A rear wing, dating back to the original farmhouse, has a ridge stack, a half-hipped gable, and an east front that was refaced in red brick around 1900, incorporating two salvaged first-floor, two-light mullion windows. The ground floor of this wing features two sash windows. A flat-roofed extension, also constructed in 1900 red brick, is located in an angle and features re-used mullion windows, one on each floor facing the east.
Local climate
Smithwick Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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