The Old Smithy

The Old Smithy is a 17th-century house located on Middleton Church Lane. It features a timber-framed structure with brick infill panels and some areas of brick rebuilding, topped with a plain tile roof and a brick ridge stack. The building has a three-cell baffle-entry plan, oriented east-west and facing north. It stands two storeys high, with two tiers of square panels set on a high brick plinth, supported by straight braces. There is a 20th-century door and porch to the left of the center, and a glazing bar casement window to the right of the center. To the left, there is a gabled two-storey extension, while a flat-roofed extension is situated to the right of it. Inside, the house features chamfered and stopped ceiling beams and joists, a large open fireplace with a timber bressumer, and queen strut roof trusses, with one exposed in the right-hand gable.