Blacksmiths Arms Public House

The Blacksmiths Arms Public House is a public house dating from 1748, with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features slate roofs. The building has a plan that includes two public rooms on either side of an entrance corridor, with a former shop located behind.

The south elevation is two storeys high and has four bays, with the left bay being a later addition. On the ground floor, there is a casement window with a slate label in the first bay, a triple sash window with single glazing bars and horns under labels in the second and third bays, and a sash window with vertical glazing bars in the fourth bay. A five-step mounting block is attached to the fourth bay. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars in the first bay, sashes with vertical glazing bars in the second and fourth bays, and a window with small-paned fixed glazing and a pivoted upper part in the third bay. The entrance, located between the third and fourth bays, features an original enriched latch and a slate gabled canopy over a round-headed datestone. The north gabled bay has a long outshut under a catslide roof, with varied fenestration and a Victorian post box.

Inside, the servery is located in the room to the right of the corridor, featuring a bar counter and shelves from 1996. The room to the left was formerly a kitchen, which includes a large cast iron range set in a substantial stone fire surround with a corbelled lintel. There is fixed bench seating along the south and east sides and part of the north side. The corridors have timber walls and a three-light window in the rear corridor. Working gas lights are present in the two previous rooms, and the floors in these rooms and the corridors are slate flagged.

The Blacksmiths Arms is a good example of a small rural public house that retains two largely unchanged public rooms. The kitchen illustrates how private and public uses were intermingled in earlier times, while the former shop demonstrates how the public house's role was combined with other economic activities.