The Blacksmiths Shop and Pig Sty at Birchfield Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1999. Blacksmith's shop, pigsty.

The Blacksmiths Shop and Pig Sty at Birchfield Farm

WRENN ID
winding-facade-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1999
Type
Blacksmith's shop, pigsty
Address
The Blacksmiths Shop and Pig Sty at Birchfield Farm, B 6165, Hartwith Cum Winsley
OS grid reference
SE 212 599
Coordinates
54.03549, -1.67732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Blacksmith's Shop and Pig Sty at Birchfield Farm is a two-storey structure dating from the late 18th century. It is built from coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof, along with a single ashlar chimney stack and quoins.

The east front has an off-centre plank door leading into the blacksmith's shop, with a square fixed window to the left. To the right, there is another similar window and a broad stable door at the right end. The north gable front features an external stone staircase leading to an upper central door, which has a flush ashlar surround. To the right of this door is a small square opening, also with a flush ashlar surround. The west front is blank, while the south gable contains pigsties with two segmental arches on the ground floor. These arches have projecting walls that enclose two pens, which include three ashlar feeding troughs built into the front walls, above a square opening.

Local climate

The Blacksmiths Shop and Pig Sty at Birchfield Farm receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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