Smithy, Mains Of Auchintoul is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Smithy.
Smithy, Mains Of Auchintoul
- WRENN ID
- strange-tower-jackdaw
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1994
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NJ 614 522
- Coordinates
- 57.55889, -2.64669
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smithy at Mains Of Auchintoul is an early 19th century building. It is a single-storey structure with a piend roof, constructed from squared, coursed, and pinned (cherry-cocked) rubble, featuring ashlar lintels. The front has five broad openings supported by ashlar pillars, with a window located to the left. There is an ashlar coped stack on the west side, with a forge situated inside below it. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
Smithy, Mains Of Auchintoul receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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