Machrimore Smithy, Kintyre

Machrimore Smithy is an unaltered mid 19th century smithy built as part of an estate. It is a single-storey building with four bays, consisting of a forge and a shoeing shop to the east. The entrance features a boarded two-leaf door flanked by stone-mullioned bipartite windows. To the right, there is a wider sliding door leading to the shoeing shop, which is also boarded. The windows are partially shuttered and partially glazed, with the upper part of each window containing four panes. The structure is built from rubble with ashlar dressing and raised margins. It has a slate roof with bracketed eaves and roof lights, along with two brick stacks and a louvred axial roof ventilator. Although the smithy has been disused since the 1960s, the interior remains intact as of 1990, featuring most of the original machinery and tools, including a forge and bellows on the west gable, a hand-powered beam-drill at a bench fixed to the southwest window, and gearing in the attic storey. An unusual survival is the horse-frame in the shoeing shop. There is also a lean-to on the west gable with a corrugated iron roof.