The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Cottage, smithy.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- tenth-loft-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage, smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Combe Florey
- OS grid reference
- ST 152 312
- Coordinates
- 51.07393, -3.2106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a cottage that includes a disused smithy, dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It has a rendered exterior over random rubble and features steeply pitched roofs, with double Roman tiles on the smithy and thatch on the dwelling, which has a brick stack on the left. The dwelling is on the right, with an attached single-storey wing that was originally the smithy, extending with a long return elevation. The building is one and one and a half storeys high and has a 2:2 bay arrangement. The main block features very large 4- and 6-light transomed casements with glazing bars. There is a round-headed doorway in the center with a six-panel door and a carved mask above it. To the left, there is an early 19th-century 4-light window with a four-centred arch, where the center lights have marginal glazing that has been re-set, and to the right, there is a 20th-century metal casement with leaded panes.
Local climate
The Old Smithy receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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