Smithy, 5 Low Vennel, Wigtown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Smithy.
Smithy, 5 Low Vennel, Wigtown
- WRENN ID
- weathered-pavement-saffron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NX 434 554
- Coordinates
- 54.86909, -4.44182
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a smithy located at 5 Low Vennel in Wigtown, dating from the early to earlier 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay house that is joined to a workshop on the right. The structure is made of painted rubble and features channelled quoins that divide the properties, although some have been removed. There is a base course at the three-bay house. The entrance is centrally located and consists of a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above, flanked by small windows, with two additional windows on the first floor.
The right return elevation retains the lower gable of a formerly adjoining property. The smithy to the left has a later sliding machinery door on the right and a window on the left, along with two first-floor windows providing accommodation above. The left return elevation shows evidence of a former adjoining property. Some of the sash and case windows retain 4-pane glazing, while others have been blocked. The house has a Rubberoid roofing material and features end and mutual gable stacks.
Local climate
Smithy, 5 Low Vennel, Wigtown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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