Smithy, Shotts, Closeburn is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Smithy. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy, Shotts, Closeburn
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rubble-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NX 909 912
- Coordinates
- 55.20362, -3.71471
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smithy in Shotts, Closeburn, is an 18th-century building that was altered and heightened in the 19th century. It is a single-storey structure with five bays and a stone-slab roof. The interior is complete, featuring windows in alternate bays with multi-paned glazing. The entrance door retains its original dressings, while the windows have been enlarged and feature stugged ashlar dressings, along with a wide vehicle doorway. The exterior is finished in whitewashed rubble with ashlar dressings. The main roof sweeps over a wide rear outshot, which includes a stack base, axial ventilators, and a single end stack. There is also a modern addition to the north gable.
Local climate
Smithy, Shotts, Closeburn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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