The Smithy

Timber framed with painted brick nogging, high brick plinth, and slate roof with massive brick gable end stack with 4 octagonal shafts. Box framed in square panels with continuous middle rail; queen post and collar strut truss visible in gable. Dated on the middle rail towards its right hand end, 1774, with initials E.G. Central doorway in gabled brick and timber porch, flanked by 2-light casement windows which have the bracketed hoods typical of Vaynor Estate work of the mid C19. 2 gabled dormers within the roof. Wide brick rear wing probably mid-late C19, with chamfered architraves to paired casement windows on each floor.

Lower outbuildings to the right comprise the former smithy and associated stabling: smithy is timber framed with brick nogging, and brick rear wing. Stabling (rebuilt following fire 1981) is partly brick but largely timber framed and weatherboarded. 3 stable doors facing onto rear yard. Interior: Cottage has a 2-room plan, with stairs winding alongside gable end stack. Former service rooms accommodated in rear wing (dairy and tack rooms etc.), now converted for domestic use.