Old Smithy, Main Street, East Saltoun is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Smithy.
Old Smithy, Main Street, East Saltoun
- WRENN ID
- long-terrace-kestrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Smithy
- OS grid reference
- NT 476 676
- Coordinates
- 55.89952, -2.83933
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Smithy on Main Street in East Saltoun was rebuilt around 1800. It is a roughly L-shaped group of buildings, currently used for residential purposes, located at a corner on a sloping site. The structure features harled pointed rubble. Originally, it served as a smithy with very low eaves and a steeply pitched roof that has an early skew form and a gablehead stack. There is a small square window on the west elevation, with a doorway next to it that breaks the eaves.
Adjoining to the south is a later addition, a three-bay building with eaves, which has a former doorway on the west side that has been blocked and converted into a window, with additional windows flanking it. The south elevation has a blank return gable, and there are end stacks. To the west, there is a piended building that is attached to the earliest structure and projects slightly to the north, featuring machinery doors. The south block has a 12-pane glazing pattern and is covered with pantiles.
Local climate
Old Smithy, Main Street, East Saltoun receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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