Smithy with Stable attached to No. 1 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 September 1962. Blacksmith's shop.

Smithy with Stable attached to No. 1 High Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 September 1962
Type
Blacksmith's shop
OS grid reference
SO 212 609
Coordinates
52.24101, -3.15461
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building is a smithy with an attached stable, located next to No. 1 High Street. It dates from the 19th century and stands two storeys tall, featuring a rendered exterior and a slate roof. The rear section has a catslide roof, and there are two rendered end stacks with brick tops. The entrance is a central, modern boarded door that is accessed by four steps. On either side of the door are modern small-paned bow windows. The first floor has 19th-century iron casements set in chamfered timber frames.

The blacksmith's shop is a single-storey structure that connects to the stable at the east end of the house. It is built from coursed rubble blocks and has a slate roof, with a rubble end stack for the smithy. The shop features a two-light window with boarded external shutters and boarded doors. The door to the smithy and the stable window have cambered voussoir lintels.

Inside, the smithy remains unaltered and includes a large fireplace with a raised hearth set in a massive rubble stack, featuring offsets and a slightly arched opening with a brick cambered lintel. There is also a smaller fireplace, which is now blocked, in the stack attached to the end of the house. The interior has a single tie-beam truss with a king post, and shadows of timber framing and chamfered beams are visible.

Local climate

Smithy with Stable attached to No. 1 High Street 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 greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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