Smiths Row (also known as Blacksmiths Cottages)

Smiths Row, also known as Blacksmiths Cottages, is a two-story building featuring elevations made of limewashed rubble topped with a long straw thatched roof, which has "eyebrows" over the first-floor windows. The front elevation includes seven 2-light 19th-century timber casement windows on the first floor and six 2-light casement windows of various styles on the ground floor. There are four 20th-century brick chimney stacks, three of which are axial, with the western-most being gabled. The front elevation is supported by seven buttresses, three of which are made of rubble construction at the eastern end, while the others are modern concrete. The rear elevation has three 19th-century lean-to scullery outshuts with slated roofs and timber casements. The eastern gable features a blocked early 17th-century single light window with ferramenta at first-floor level, showcasing sunk chamfered jambs and a hollow chamfered head beneath a fragmentary hoodmould.

The easternmost cottage (No 5) dates from the early 17th century and has a two-cell, lobby entry plan with substantial back-to-back fireplaces that retain timber lintels. A cross-corner stone stair remains on the northern side of the fireplace without an outshut. The eastern hall cell was previously lit by a three-light window on the south elevation, which is beneath a relieving arch. The ceiling over the hall cell is supported by lateral quarter-round moulded beams and features thirteen complexly reed moulded joists in each bay. The western cell has a joist beam ceiling and a modern straight flight staircase. The central cottage (No 4) appears to have originally been a single-story workshop, possibly contemporary with the eastern cottage, which was raised to full two-story height likely in the late 18th or early 19th century. The western cottage, dating from around 1700, consists of two cells with a central axial and gable stack at the western end, designed in a hearth passage form with a hall and outer room. The passage is located to the west of the axial stack, and a timber spiral staircase is situated on the northern side of the axial stack.