Smithy, Church Street, Fordyce is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Smithy.

Smithy, Church Street, Fordyce

WRENN ID
grim-loft-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Smithy
Address
Smithy, Church Street, Fordyce, AB45 2SL
OS grid reference
NJ 555 637
Coordinates
57.66159, -2.74712
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Smithy on Church Street in Fordyce is an early to mid-19th century building that was originally a cottage before being converted into a smithy. It is a single-storey structure with three bays and features a small single-storey, single-bay extension at the west gable. The exterior is roughly harled over random rubble, with tooled rubble dressings. There is a side entrance that includes a double-leaf plank door, along with two large windows that have vertical glazing. The rear of the building has three similar windows and a small gable loft window. The building has coped end stacks and pantiled roofs, with a slate easing course on the main structure.

Local climate

Smithy, Church Street, Fordyce sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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