Smithy Cottage, Carronbridge is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage, Carronbridge
- WRENN ID
- outer-cellar-heath
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Carronbridge, DG3 5BA
- OS grid reference
- NX 869 981
- Coordinates
- 55.26458, -3.78033
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waulkmill Cottage is an earlier 19th-century single-storey row of buildings located on a slope. It originally comprised three cottages, but now consists of two, with a smithy situated between them. The structure is built from snecked, stugged, and squared pink rubble, featuring ashlar dressings. The cottage to the north, known as Findlater, has three bays, a central boarded door, and two roof-lights, while the remainder of the row is under a continuous roof. The other cottage to the north, referred to as Smithy Cottage, has four bays; it was originally two-bay cottages, and the second door has been converted into a window. The two-bay smithy retains a boarded smithy door and an iron tethering loop on a nearby stone. The building has coped end stacks, although one has been removed.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage, Carronbridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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