Talsarn Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 1996. Smithy.
Talsarn Smithy
- WRENN ID
- calm-keystone-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1996
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- Talsarn Smithy, Lampeter, Nantcwnlle
- OS grid reference
- SN 545 562
- Coordinates
- 52.18564, -4.12911
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Talsarn Smithy is a single-storey, rectangular building constructed from squared rubble stone, topped with an asbestos sheet hipped roof. The front features two small windows on the left and in the center, each with stone voussoirs and pairs of casement windows, one of which is glazed while the other is shuttered. To the right, there is a full-height broad opening fitted with 20th-century metal doors. A small stone stack is located on the rear wall, and there is a 20th-century asbestos-clad lean-to on the northern end. The southern end has rubble stone with stone angle and center piers, indicating an infilled two-bay opening.
Inside, the building consists of two rooms, with the southern end divided off by a rubble wall. The main northern part serves as the smithy, featuring a double hearth against the rear walls, which originally had two sets of bellows; the left set has been removed, but a curved indent in the wall to the north marks its previous position. There is an unusual cylindrical bellows to the right, along with an additional hearth on the southern wall that has bellows in the southeast corner. The roof is smoke blackened and features a collar-truss design with bolted collars.
Local climate
Talsarn Smithy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
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