Smithy Cottage With Attached Smithy And Outbuilding

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

EGLINGHAM EGLINGHAM VILLAGE NU 1019 (North side) 19/159 Smithy Cottage with attached smithy and outbuilding GV II

Cottage, smithy and outbuilding. Cottage and smithy early C18 altered C19; outbuilding c.1840. Cottage and smithy largely roughly-squared stone with later tooled-and-margined dressings; outbuilding squared tooled stone with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof except for C20 metal sheets on outbuilding.

South elevation in 3 sections, each 1 storey, 2 bays. Cottage on left has boarded door with 2-pane overlight in later rustic porch, flanked by 4-pane sash windows with C19 lintels and slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables; small stepped end stacks. Lower smithy in centre has boarded double doors, with boarded window on left and blacksmith's window on right, all in C19 alternating-block surrounds. Coped right gable with reduced stack. Outbuilding to right has boarded double doors under segmental arch on left, boarded door and window on right; coped right gable.

Interior: Smithy has original forge with arched recesses flanking hearth and massive roughly-chamfered lintel. Bellows now in adjacent outbuilding, which was probably built as a stable for the former Ogle Arms Inn (see No. 12, q.v.).

Listing NGR: NU1095019455

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0418 IOE Records taken by Peter Oakley Clarke; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter Oakley Clarke. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project