Blair Smithy, Blair Estate, Dalry is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 December 1980. 7 related planning applications.
Blair Smithy, Blair Estate, Dalry
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hammer-ochre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1980
- Address
- Blair Smithy, Blair Estate, Dalry, KA24 4ER
- OS grid reference
- NS 308 474
- Coordinates
- 55.69093, -4.69226
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Smithy Cottage West, located at 1 Blair Smithy on the Blair Estate in Dalry, is an early 19th century single-storey smithy constructed of painted rubble. The building features margins and rusticated angle pilasters topped with ball finials. It has an off-centre pend with two cottages on each side, each with central doors and flanking Gothick-arched windows in the inner cottages. The window on the right has a blocked door that has been converted into a bipartite window. The cottages in the outer bays have later brick porches and single-bay extensions. The roof is slate, with a piended design at the extensions and porches, and the left porch is adorned with fish-scale slating.
Local climate
Blair Smithy, Blair Estate, Dalry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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