Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 1994. Former school.

Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-soffit-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 1994
Type
Former school
Address
Smithy Cottage, Cenarth
OS grid reference
SN 269 414
Coordinates
52.04471, -4.52418
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Smithy Cottage, originally a school from the early 19th century, is attached to a former smithy built in 1860. It features grey coursed rubble stone and slate roofs. The former school has stone end wall stacks, with the larger stack on the left. It is two stories high and has a three-window front, showcasing three large pointed casement windows above, each with nine panes, steep traceried heads, stone voussoirs, and slate sills. The ground floor includes a ledged door to the left and a nine-pane casement window in the center, both with stone voussoirs and cambered heads. There is also a blocked cart-entry to the right, which has a broad depressed arch, stone voussoirs, and a keystone, along with inserted 20th-century four-light casements. To the left, there is a whitewashed rendered 20th-century addition, and a large addition at the rear southeast.

The smithy is a single-storey, double-fronted structure with a 20th-century window on each side of a stable door, featuring stone voussoirs and keystones above cambered heads. There is a similar window on the east end wall. A corrugated iron lean-to extends from the front. Inside, there is a broad rear door, two hearths located in the southeast and southwest corners, a slate flagged floor, and a collar-truss roof. A large 20th-century addition is located at the back.

Local climate

Smithy Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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