Smithy Cottage the Cottage

Smithy Cottage and The Cottage are a row of three cottages, now functioning as two dwellings, dating from the mid-18th century. They are constructed of deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone with stone slate eaves courses on the left part of a pantile roof. The buildings are two storeys high and feature a total of three windows on the first floor, with a wing at the rear left and an addition at the rear right. The large quoins are a notable architectural detail.

Smithy Cottage, located on the left, has paired central doorways with tooled, bonded surrounds and deep lintels; however, the right doorway is blocked and now features a small circular window. On either side of the doorways are 20th-century casement windows in their original square-faced surrounds, though the sills have been lowered and the central mullions removed. There are two similar windows above. The Cottage has a casement window on the left in the position of a former door and another casement on the right within an altered square-faced surround, with a similar window above. The current doorway is set back to the right in the addition. The buildings have shaped kneelers, although the one on the right is missing, and gable copings. There are brick stacks at the ends and a similar ridge stack at the junction.

The left return of Smithy Cottage once housed the village smithy and still shows a blocked opening that led to the shoeing bay.