Malzie Smithy is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1992. Smithy.
Malzie Smithy
- WRENN ID
- night-landing-crow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1992
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NX 371 540
- Coordinates
- 54.85506, -4.53867
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Malzie Smithy is a single-storey smithy built in the late 18th to early 19th century, featuring a water-wheel. The structure is made of rubble with a corrugated asbestos roof. It has a granite-dressed rubble gablehead stack on the east side and a brick ridge stack at the centre.
On the northeast elevation, there is a boarded door to the left of centre, with windows to both the left and right of centre, each containing 6-pane glazing above small boarded shutters. A machinery door is located to the right, and there is a wheel-pit to the left, below the left window. The cast-iron breast-shot water-wheel, which has a diameter of 8 feet and a width of 1 foot 9 inches, was formerly fitted with zinc buckets and is a fairly modern replacement for an earlier wheel. The remaining elevations are blank.
Inside, there are two forges, one located to the east and one in the centre. The interior also includes gearing and belts for driving machinery using water power, mechanically-driven bellows, and an anvil.
Local climate
Malzie Smithy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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