Smithy Close To South End Of Barn At Herd Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Smithy.

Smithy Close To South End Of Barn At Herd Farm

WRENN ID: forbidden-granite-grain
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Leeds
Country: England
Type: Smithy
Source: Historic England listing

Description

LEEDS

SE34SW ECCUP LANE, Eccup 714-1/3/648 (East side (off)) Smithy close to south end of barn at Herd Farm

GV II

Smithy. Probably 1760 with later alterations. For Robert Midgley, steward of the Cookridge Hall estate. Coursed squared gritstone, stone slate roof. Single storey, 2 bays. Quoins. Doorway right, square window centre, front wall rebuilt; stone stack left end. INTERIOR: the blacksmith's hearth is built against the S gable and is intact, also anvil, shelving, tools. A rare survival of an important part of a large farm, the forge where tools and equipment were made and repaired, often by an itinerant blacksmith. Part of a well-documented farm group, see Herd Farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: SE3105542160

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