Smithy, Knowes Of Elrick is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Smithy.
Smithy, Knowes Of Elrick
- WRENN ID
- open-loft-vetch
- 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 605 540
- Coordinates
- 57.57461, -2.66055
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smithy at Knowes Of Elrick dates from the early to mid-19th century and is a single-storey building with six bays. It is constructed from roughly squared rubble and features wooden lintels.
On the east elevation, there are two doorways: a broad door in the center and a stable door to the outer right. The windows maintain a vertical, overlapped, lying-pane glazing pattern. There is a small window on the north gable and a lean-to addition at the rear.
The building has a slatted vertical glazing pattern and a corrugated asbestos roof. The skews are coped with ashlar, and there is a brick stack on the south side.
Inside, two forges have been retained.
Local climate
Smithy, Knowes Of Elrick receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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 0.2°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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