The Old Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 March 2005. House, smithy. 1 related planning application.
The Old Smithy
- WRENN ID
- wild-mortar-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2005
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- The Old Smithy, Cradoc, Yscir, Powys, LD3 9PD
- OS grid reference
- SO 017 305
- Coordinates
- 51.96487, -3.43175
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Smithy is a two-storey house featuring a pebble-dashed exterior and a slate roof with roughcast short end stacks. The front has square 6-pane hopper windows, with one on each floor to the left of a half-glazed door, and one on each floor to the right, positioned further from the door. There is an additional window on the first floor further right, located above the left side of a broad square-headed cart-shed opening. The windows have tooled stone sills, and there is a letterbox in the wall to the right of the door.
The smithy section is constructed from whitewashed rubble and has a slate roof that aligns with the house's ridge and eaves line, although it has a slightly different pitch. The facade of the smithy is angled from the house front and features two broad boarded loft openings under the eaves, along with a broad cambered-headed shuttered window on each side of a segmental-arched central doorway that has a boarded door. The lower openings are adorned with stone voussoirs and stone sills, and the right corner is curved. The right end wall is whitewashed and includes a small stone gable stack, with a lean-to at the rear.
Inside the smithy, it is reported that the original hearth and stone floors are still intact.
Local climate
The Old Smithy 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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