Smithy Cottage Smithy House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage Smithy House
- WRENN ID
- winding-keystone-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithy Cottage Smithy House, Caldbeck, Cumberland, CA7 8JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 340 386
- Coordinates
- 54.73854, -3.02545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage and Smithy House are two houses that form a row, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They have painted roughcast walls and are topped with a graduated greenslate roof, featuring roughcast chimney stacks. Each house is two storeys high and consists of two bays. Smithy Cottage, located on the left, has a gabled porch with a double casement window and a side entrance. It also features sash windows with glazing bars set in painted stone surrounds. Smithy House includes a 20th-century glazed porch and has sash windows in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage Smithy House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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