Smithy Cottage And That Part Of The Same House In Corporated Within Smity House

Smithy Cottage, along with the part of the same house incorporated within Smithy House, is a mid to late 17th-century building that has been altered in the 19th century. It is now a single dwelling and is partly unoccupied. The structure is built of coursed red sandstone, topped with a Welsh slate and felted roof. It has two storeys and three bays.

The entrance is located within a late 19th-century porch to the right of the centre. To the left of the porch, there is a boarded window and an old three-light casement window with glazing bars, both set in chamfered surrounds and beneath a continuous dripmould. To the right of the porch, the wall features a straight joist, followed by a three-light horizontally-sliding sash window with glazing bars, also under a short section of dripmould.

On the first floor, there is a gabled half-dormer on the left with a five-light chamfered mullioned window, although one mullion has been removed. To the right of the porch, there is a bricked opening and a window similar to the one below. The eaves overhang, and there is a brick ridge stack to the right of the porch. The rear of the building is roughcast but maintains a straight joint like the front; to the right, there is an original small stair-window with a chamfered surround, and further right are two double-chamfered two-light mullioned windows flanking a doorway.

The right return features a blocked original doorway, while the left return has a blocked chamfered one-light window on the first floor, which is visible from within Smithy House.

Inside, the right end room has an incomplete bressumer beam supporting twin spine beams and some original joists, while the centre room retains original joists. On the first floor, the left end room with the dormer shows a visible tie-beam and studding, which may partition off a void since the ground floor of bay one is occupied by Smithy House, but there is no access above. The separate fireplace, straight joist, and blocked end-gable door suggest that the right end once formed a separate dwelling. Smithy House at the left end is not of special interest, except for its incorporation of part of the original 17th-century house. An addition to the rear of Smithy Cottage is not of special interest.