Smithy And Joiners Workshop, Blackadder Mount Farm

This is a later 19th-century cottage, originally comprising four separate units (now combined, see Notes), situated within the Blackadder Mount Farm complex and resembling the neighbouring cottages numbered 1, 2, and 3. It is a single-storey, nine-bay range. The exterior is of stugged sandstone ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, featuring a base course and chamfered arrises. A smithy and joiner’s workshop is attached to the north, built in a similar style with stugged ashlar on the front and rubble on the rear elevation.

The south elevation has a blank bay in the centre, with windows in each of the flanking three-bay groups; the middle bay of each group was originally a doorway, now partially blocked. Advanced, gabled outer bays are present, each with ashlar finials, a polished ashlar window with a cornice and parapet, and what appears to be lattice glazing to a pointed-arch arrow slit opening in the gablehead.

The north elevation mirrors the south, with a window to each middle bay of the three-bay groups. Remaining bays are blank, with the exception of the projecting, gabled outer bays, each featuring an ashlar finial and a small window. Modern enlargement of windows is visible to the inside return elevations.

The east and west elevations are similar, with three bays each including a modern door in the centre, featuring a plate glass letterbox fanlight above, and windows to each flanking bay.

The windows are generally 8-pane timber sash and case, except for those in the outer bays of the north elevation. The roof is covered in graded slate, with ashlar-based brick ridge stacks positioned to the outer side of each three-bay group. Ashlar coped skews have bracketed skewputts.

The interior was not inspected in 1996.

The smithy and joiner’s workshop has a seven-bay south elevation, featuring a blank central bay (to the right of the true centre) with a modern garage door opening to the inner bay to the left. A window is positioned in the inner bay to the right and in each intermediate bay. Boarded doors with letterbox fanlights are located in the outer bays. The skew-gabled east and west elevations are similar to the outer bays of the cottages, with an advanced polished ashlar window to the west and a bipartite window to the east. A timber-lintelled large opening exists to the east, with a lancet window to the gablehead, and five blinded windows are grouped 2-3 on the north elevation. The roof is slate, with an ashlar base for a ridge stack in the centre. The interior of the smithy was inspected in 1996, revealing an ashlar canopy above the fireplace.