Smithy Cottage and Adjoining Former Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House, smithy.

Smithy Cottage and Adjoining Former Smithy

WRENN ID
forbidden-pilaster-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1986
Type
House, smithy
OS grid reference
NY 249 369
Coordinates
54.72191, -3.16627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage and the adjoining former smithy, now a garage, date from the mid or late 17th century and have 19th-century alterations and additions. The building features whitewashed rubble walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a single-bay former stable on the left that is now part of the house under a common roof, and a lower right-angled former smithy on the right. The main entrance has a top-glazed panelled door in a rebated surround beneath a Tudor-arched lintel. There are additional doorways to the left and right that are from the 19th century. The windows are irregularly spaced, consisting of sash and casement styles in painted stone surrounds, some of which have glazing bars; the smaller windows may be original. The smithy features a 20th-century garage door in the original opening, flanked by casement windows.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage and Adjoining Former Smithy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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