The Old Smithy, with Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Smithy, with Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- fossil-spandrel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Smithy, with Front Boundary Railings, Street Lane, Brewham, BA10 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 721 361
- Coordinates
- 51.12407, -2.39964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the first half of the 18th century, originally accompanied by a smithy. It is situated in a significant location in the centre of the village. The cottage is constructed of local stone rubble with an undulating plain clay tile roof, coped gables, and stone end chimney stacks with brick caps. The building is two storeys high, with three bays. A single-storey smithy is located on the north-west corner, linking this property to Bridge Cottage. The cottage has 2-light casement windows with diamond leaded glass panes, set under older exposed timber lintels. A central boarded entrance door is within a heavy, slightly moulded frame. Internally, the cottage features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, though it has been much modified. A brick wall, approximately 1 metre high, projects from the south-west corner, with stone coping extending along the roadside boundary as a low brick wall. This wall is capped by simple railings, with a central gate featuring bud finial standards and matching finials to the middle rail.
Local climate
The Old Smithy, with Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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