Smithy Cottage, Schoolhill, Ceres is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1972. 1 related planning application.

Smithy Cottage, Schoolhill, Ceres

WRENN ID
still-tin-rook
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1972
Address
Smithy Cottage, Schoolhill, Ceres, KY15 5NJ
OS grid reference
NO 401 115
Coordinates
56.29245, -2.96795
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a blacksmith shop located on Schoolhill in Ceres, dated 1787 at the skew end. It features a single-storey house with two windows, which has been altered to a bipartite arrangement, and a central door. The house is constructed with large droved coursers. The smithy is built from rubble and has a wide door raised in the roof, covered with pantiles.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage, Schoolhill, Ceres receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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