Smithy, Holm is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 1999. Cottage.
Smithy, Holm
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rubble-wren
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- HY 477 028
- Coordinates
- 58.90995, -2.90874
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a former smithy's cottage from the mid-19th century, designed as a single-storey, three-bay structure with a symmetrical rectangular plan. The exterior is harled.
On the east (principal) elevation, there is a part-glazed timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight located in the central bay, flanked by a window in each of the side bays. The north and south side elevations feature blank gabled walls.
The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case types. The roof is covered with graded grey stone tiles, featuring a stone ridge, small rooflights on the east pitch, harled gablehead stacks with cornices, concrete skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Adjacent to the cottage is a rectangular-plan, harl-pointed former smithy, which has been converted into a garage. This structure is located to the south of the cottage and has a modern addition attached to its south side. The original block features a large square-headed entrance on the east elevation, with a roof of graded grey stone tiles and a corrugated iron roof on the addition. The garage also has concrete skews and predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Smithy, Holm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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