Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1999. House.

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 November 1999
Type
House
Address
Smithy Cottage, Llanrhaeadr, Denbigh, Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
OS grid reference
SJ 081 634
Coordinates
53.15982, -3.37537
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage is a storeyed end chimney house with a 20th-century extension to the right. It is built of limestone rubble and has a slate roof. The primary end chimney is located on the left and features simple moulded capping. There is a 20th-century brick chimney in the center, which replaced a former gable end chimney. The entrance is on the far left and has a boarded door. To the right of the entrance is a modern wooden window with four panes, followed by another window with eight panes. On the first floor, there are two modern windows with twelve panes, one of which is a sliding sash copy. The rear elevation has similar four- and twelve-pane windows on the ground and first floors, respectively, along with a small modern window in the first-floor gable end. A short modern addition is flush with the main block and has a continuously-roofed design, featuring a sliding sash window. To the right, there is a stepped-down square modern conservatory with a pitched slate roof and small pane glazing.

Inside, the cottage has an unusual lobby entry plan, with the primary entrance on the far left opening onto the internal breast of the left-hand end chimney. The former hall contains a large end fireplace with a flat oak bressummer that is chamfered and ogee-stopped. This bressummer has a worn, painted date of 1726 and the initials I. R to the left. The ceiling in the first bay of the former hall is simple, with unadorned joists.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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