The Smithy Including Adjoining Outbuilding To North is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. House, outbuilding.
The Smithy Including Adjoining Outbuilding To North
- WRENN ID
- pale-iron-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- House, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SX 787 619
- Coordinates
- 50.44478, -3.70875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy, including the adjoining outbuilding to the north, is a house and outbuilding that may include part of a former blacksmith's shop. It likely dates from the 18th century and was extended in the early and mid-19th century. The structure is made of rendered stone rubble, with cob below the eaves at the rear, and the left end features stone with a slate-hung first storey. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and has gabled and hipped ends, with a lower roof on the right-hand addition.
The gable and chimney stack, now an axial stack near the left end, is made of whitewashed stone rubble with slate weathering and a rendered tapered cap. The layout consists of a two-room plan with stairs located at the rear of the central entrance passage. The left room is larger and heated by a gable end stack, while the smaller right room was likely unheated originally but now has a lateral stain on the right end of the rear wall.
An early 19th-century store with a loft was added to the left end, and a single-storey, one-room plan addition was built at the right end around the mid-19th century, which is now used as a kitchen but may have once been part of the demolished blacksmith's shop. The house is built into a high bank at the rear, featuring a central back doorway that leads to the landing at the top of the stairs.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular three-window range on the original house, skewed to the right. The late 19th-century windows are three-light casements with glazing bars, while the right-hand windows are two-light. There is a 19th-century plank door to the right of centre, leading to an open-fronted porch with monolithic stone jambs and a timber boarded gable. To the left, there is a one-bay outbuilding extension made of stone, rendered on the ground floor and slate-hung above, with a 19th-century plank door to the right. At the right end, the mid-19th-century single-storey extension has a three-light casement.
Inside, the building has seen little alteration, featuring plastered ceilings and plastered timber stud partitions. The left room contains a later wooden chimney piece that may have replaced an open fireplace.
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