Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1987. A Medieval House. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-buttress-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, the Causeway, Redmarley D'Abitot, GL19 3JS
- OS grid reference
- SO 752 314
- Coordinates
- 51.98058, -2.36181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in the late 20th century. It features brick-nogged or rendered panel timber framing and a tiled roof, with a painted random rubble extension on the right. The building consists of three bays and is one room deep, standing at 1½ storeys tall, with a single-storey extension on the right that projects forward.
The front of the house has all late 20th-century windows, with the framing generally consisting of three panels high to the eaves. On the left side, there is a three-light casement window that cuts through a long brace stud to the sill, and a blocked doorway to the right. Additionally, there are two-light casement windows and two further casement windows, along with an angle strut corner post to the wall plate.
The extension on the right has a blocked doorway that is accessed by one stone step and features a cambered brick arch. The first floor has three gabled dormers with two-light casements, and there is a chimney on the ridge opposite the blocked door. The left return showcases full elbow crucks, with the framing two panels high below the weatherboard, a collar above, and one pair of purlins.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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
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- 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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