Malzie Smithy is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1992. Smithy.
Malzie Smithy
- WRENN ID
- night-landing-crow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1992
- Type
- Smithy
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Malzie Smithy is a single-storey smithy built in the late 18th to early 19th century, featuring a water-wheel. The structure is made of rubble with a corrugated asbestos roof. It has a granite-dressed rubble gablehead stack on the east side and a brick ridge stack at the centre.
On the northeast elevation, there is a boarded door to the left of centre, with windows to both the left and right of centre, each containing 6-pane glazing above small boarded shutters. A machinery door is located to the right, and there is a wheel-pit to the left, below the left window. The cast-iron breast-shot water-wheel, which has a diameter of 8 feet and a width of 1 foot 9 inches, was formerly fitted with zinc buckets and is a fairly modern replacement for an earlier wheel. The remaining elevations are blank.
Inside, there are two forges, one located to the east and one in the centre. The interior also includes gearing and belts for driving machinery using water power, mechanically-driven bellows, and an anvil.
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