The Smithy

The Smithy is a house in a row, originally part of a larger house known as Spring Hill Cottage, dating from the 16th to mid-17th century. It features coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has a rectangular plan and a moulded plinth. It is two stories high with a two-windowed facade. The upper left has one 2-light stone-mullioned window with 4-centred arched heads to each light, while the other windows are 2 and 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casements. The ground floor windows have stopped hoods. There is a 20th-century plank door with leaded panes at the top, located off-centre to the right and set back within a porch that has a flat-chamfered 4-centred arched entrance with a stopped hood. Inside the porch, there are two narrow stone seats. The right gable end features saddleback coping and a moulded kneeler. The building has a twin axial stack with moulded capping and skirting, along with the stump of a gable-end stack. The interior has not been inspected.