Old Smithy

Old Smithy is a cottage and former smithy, likely built in the early to mid 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The structure is made of uncoursed limestone rubble and features a reed thatch roof. It has a prominent axial ridge stack with dripstones and capping, along with a 20th-century lateral integral red brick stack on the right side. The building is one and a half storeys tall with irregular fenestration, including 19th and 20th-century casements—one on the first floor, two on the ground floor, and two eaves dormers cut into the thatch. The entrance is on the right, featuring a cambered arch beneath a 20th-century lean-to porch.

To the left, the disused smithy can be accessed through double doors in a 19th-century lean-to, with a double hatch to the right next to a semi-circular slate-capped projection that once housed a furnace. Inside the cottage, there is a large fireplace with a bread oven to the right and a moulded beam above in the main room to the left. The interior also includes a wide stop-chamfered ceiling beam and heavy joists, along with a simple straight flight staircase that has a winder and a short subsidiary flight leading to the room above the smithy.