Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1990.
Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- over-rafter-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1990
- Address
- Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie, KW10 6RA
- OS grid reference
- NC 834 000
- Coordinates
- 57.97444, -3.97213
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century smiddy, located to the rear of Anvil House on Main Street, Golspie. It is a single-storey range laid out in an L-shape. The exterior is constructed of squared pink rubble, with roughly tooled dressings and snecking. The northwest-facing elevation features an advanced bay to the left with a door, and to the right a horizontally divided door and window. At the extreme right is a low, slab-roofed projection, likely originally used for housing bellows. A stack is located on the southwest gable.
The elevation facing the sea has a gable on the right, with an off-centre window. An unusual asymmetrical apex stack, featuring a light jamb joining the skew at a lower level than the rest of the stack, is also present. Both stacks incorporate thackstanes. The roof is covered in corrugated iron.
Local climate
Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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