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

Late 18th to early 19th century. Single storey smithy, with water-wheel. Rubble. Corrugated asbestos roof. Granite-dressed rubble gablehead stack to E; brick ridge stack at centre. N ELEVATION: boarded door to left of centre; window to left and right of centre, each with 6-pane glazing above small boarded shutters. Machinery door to right. Wheel-pit to left, below left window. Cast-iron breast-shot water-wheel, formerly with zinc buckets (8ft in diameter by 1ft 9inches wide); fairly modern, replacing an earlier wheel. Remaining elevations blank.

INTERIOR: 2 forges, one to E and one to centre. Gearing and belts to drive machinery by water power. Mechanically-driven bellows. Anvil.

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