Glen View Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House.
Glen View Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- standing-minaret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glen View Old Smithy, Colton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 318 872
- Coordinates
- 54.27607, -3.0481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glen View Old Smithy is a house with an attached outbuilding that was formerly a smithy, dating back to 1697, with later alterations and additions. The house is constructed of roughcast stone, while the outbuilding is made of stone rubble with slobbered mortar, both featuring slate roofs, with the older roof on the left side. The house has two storeys and two bays. The ground floor includes a window in the first bay with small-paned fixed glazing and an opening light, while the second bay has sashed windows with glazing bars on both the ground and first floors. The entrance features a 20th-century gabled porch. There is a 19th-century brick gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack.
The outbuilding, also two storeys, has a sliding door and a small window with small-paned glazing on the left side, along with paired loading doors above. A stone on the right side is dated 1697 and features initials, likely "MP-", along with three nails to the side, and images of a hammer, pincers, and horseshoe below, all framed by a cable-mould border. The rear of the building has a small gabled outshut and varied fenestration, with a gabled projection on the left return and a small-paned casement on the right return. The datestone is significant as a rare example of a trade sign.
Local climate
Glen View Old Smithy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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