Smithy, Camserney is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Smithy, Camserney
- WRENN ID
- guardian-outpost-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 819 494
- Coordinates
- 56.62163, -3.92493
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a mid-19th century building, originally a smithy house, with a single storey and attic. It has a rectangular plan and features three bays, with the bays grouped to the left. The structure is built of random rubble and is whitewashed, topped with reed-thatch roofs that have concrete ridges. The thatch was restored around 1970 at the dormer windows and in the late 20th century at the smithy.
The cottage has a symmetrical entrance on the south elevation, featuring a two-leaf timber door and a rustic gabled porch at the center. There are windows in the flanking bays and two attic windows above, which include an eyelid thatched dormer. To the left, there is a lower single storey bay with a window. The windows are timber sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern. The chimneystacks are made of coped ashlar and brick.
The former smithy, located to the south, has two boarded timber stable-type doors flanking a small bipartite casement window. It features a projecting chimney breast that is battered at the base and pierces the eaves on the right side. The east gablehead is also made of boarded timber.
Additionally, there is a limekiln situated to the northeast of the cottage. This small, roughly rectangular-plan structure is built of rubble and has an opening on the south side.
Local climate
Smithy, Camserney sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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