Number 3 and the Adjoining Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1988. Cottage and smithy.

Number 3 and the Adjoining Smithy

WRENN ID
unlit-keystone-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1988
Type
Cottage and smithy
OS grid reference
SP 020 097
Coordinates
51.78632, -1.97137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 3 and the adjoining Smithy is a pair of cottages, now combined into one, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and features a stone slate roof with a single ashlar stack. There are two other stacks that were restored in the 20th century, also with dressed stone quoins, along with brick stacks at the rear and at the smithy. The cottages have a rectangular plan, with the smithy positioned at right angles to the rear.

The structure is one and a half storeys high and has a four-windowed facade. The ground floor features single-light and two-light wooden casements with timber lintels, while the first floor has two-light, 20th-century slate-hung half dormers. The left-hand cottage has a 19th-century plank door at its center, and the right-hand cottage has a four-panelled door with a wrought iron porch.

On the roadside of the smithy, there are stable doors flanked by four-pane casements with timber lintels, and to the left, there are two two-light casements with glazing bars. The smithy retains its forge. The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Local climate

Number 3 and the Adjoining Smithy 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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