Machrimore Smithy House is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 June 1990. House, smithy.
Machrimore Smithy House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-entrance-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1990
- Type
- House, smithy
- OS grid reference
- NR 701 093
- Coordinates
- 55.32391, -5.62535
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Machrimore Smithy House is a mid to late 19th century house, believed to have been built for a blacksmith. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features an asymmetrical, three-bay L-plan front. There is a porch with a lean-to roof at the re-entrant angle. The structure is made of rubble with ashlar rybats and dressings, including bipartite windows on the ground floor and a single-light attic opening in the front gable with ashlar margins. The windows are plate glass sashes. The house has end and axial stacks, and the slate roof has been unsympathetically cut back at the eaves, suggesting it was originally broad-eaved with timber brackets. The property is enclosed by its original 19th century iron fence and gate.
Local climate
Machrimore Smithy House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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