Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-flagstone-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Washford Pyne, EX17 4QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 805 097
- Coordinates
- 50.87524, -3.69865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 18th century, and modernized around 1920-30. It is constructed with plastered cob over exposed rubble, with 20th-century brick dressings up to the first floor level. The cottage has a rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. The original three-room plan is oriented towards the south-east, with a stack on the left (south-west) end. The front façade has a regular three-window arrangement of 20th-century casement windows, most without glazing bars. A 20th-century gabled porch covers the doorway located to the left of the centre. The roof is hipped on the right side and half-hipped on the left.
The interior has been modernized, with much of the original timberwork replaced in the 20th century. However, the left (south-west) room retains two deeply but roughly chamfered axial beams and a rubble fireplace with a soffit chamfered and run-out stopped oak lintel, and an inserted 19th-century brick oven on the right side. The roof was not inspected.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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