The Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Smithy
- WRENN ID
- cold-stronghold-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Smithy, the Green, Barrington, OX18 4TE
- OS grid reference
- SP 205 127
- Coordinates
- 51.8134, -1.70259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy is a house in a row, originally part of a larger house known as Spring Hill Cottage, dating from the 16th to mid-17th century. It features coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has a rectangular plan and a moulded plinth. It is two stories high with a two-windowed facade. The upper left has one 2-light stone-mullioned window with 4-centred arched heads to each light, while the other windows are 2 and 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casements. The ground floor windows have stopped hoods. There is a 20th-century plank door with leaded panes at the top, located off-centre to the right and set back within a porch that has a flat-chamfered 4-centred arched entrance with a stopped hood. Inside the porch, there are two narrow stone seats. The right gable end features saddleback coping and a moulded kneeler. The building has a twin axial stack with moulded capping and skirting, along with the stump of a gable-end stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Smithy receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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