Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Workshop.

Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South

WRENN ID
rough-lintel-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Workshop
OS grid reference
SS 737 297
Coordinates
51.05352, -3.80199
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building consists of workshop ranges, including a smithy, likely built in the mid-19th century, with some alterations made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed from uncoursed stone rubble with some red-brick details and features gable-ended and hipped scantle-slate roofs. The layout is asymmetrical in a U-shape, with a long range attached to the rear of the left side of Thorne House, and two shorter ranges extending at right angles to the south and west, forming the U-plan. The smithy is located in the short returning range. The long east range has been converted for domestic use in the mid to late 20th century.

The building is two storeys high. The smithy has a boarded loft door with a segmental brick head and a ground-floor two-leaf boarded door also with a segmental brick head. The south range features a small-pane loft window to the right and a large ground-floor boarded door. The main east range has been refenestrated in the mid to late 20th century, now featuring 20th-century two-light wooden casements and an off-centre gabled loft dormer. Inside, the south-east range retains a complete working blacksmith's shop, which includes a painted brick forge, working bellows in a metal frame with a long handle, a bench with a tool rack, and a cobbled floor. It is noted that this space was formerly a wheelwright's shop.

Local climate

Workshop Ranges Including Smithy Adjoining Thorne House to South sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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