The Smiths Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 2003. Public house.

The Smiths Arms

WRENN ID
first-bonework-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 2003
Type
Public house
Address
The Smiths Arms, Neath Abbey, Dyffryn Clydach
OS grid reference
SS 738 975
Coordinates
51.66296, -3.82525
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Smiths Arms is a public house built in red brick with painted stone dressings and a slate roof featuring terracotta ridge tiles and brick end stacks. It has small paired brackets at the eaves and is two stories high with a three-window range, including a slightly projected gabled center bay. The windows are cambered-headed with painted stone rusticated surrounds and panelled corniced keystones, featuring sash windows with fixed small panes in the curved heads. Each window has painted sills with a narrow band of arcaded moulding beneath. The left corner is chamfered at the ground floor only, with stepped brickwork corbelled out above. There are flush painted stone bands at both sill and impost levels on each floor, along with painted quoins.

The center steep gable showcases half-timbering and brackets under the gable verges, with a pair of narrow two-pane sash windows on the first floor, linked by an arch over a painted stone date of 1898. The entrance features a broad door with a 20th-century door and sidelights set within a large cast-iron porch. This porch has a gable with dense pierced tracery, a glazed roof, and patterned frieze bands displaying "SMITHS ARMS" in cast-iron lettering, all supported by two thin columns and two rear iron brackets.

The right end wall is constructed of rubble stone, while the left end is red brick with bands that continue from the front, a chimney breast at the first floor, and narrow similar windows on each floor. The ground floor left window has been replaced by a 20th-century door. The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Smiths Arms sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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