The Old Smithy

The Old Smithy, Eyke Road, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, IP13 0PY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030823
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old Smithy
Statutory Address:
The Old Smithy, Eyke Road, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, IP13 0PY
West facing front of Smithy House with the Forge barn on the rhs.
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Date:
2001-11-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030823
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old Smithy
Statutory Address 1:
The Old Smithy, Eyke Road, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, IP13 0PY

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
The Old Smithy, Eyke Road, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, IP13 0PY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Campsey Ash
National Grid Reference:
TM3306655883

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 February 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TM 35 NW
2/14

CAMPSEY ASH
EYKE ROAD
The Old Smithy

(Formerly listed as Smithy Cottage, MARLESFORD ROAD)

GV
II
House with smithy attached, now used as accommodation for house. C17. Timber framed and plastered with hipped plain tiled roof: smithy is weatherboarded with pantiled roof. Two storeys and attic. Possible lobby entrance. Three window range: C19 casements with metal glazing bars: left hand window has boarded shutters. Modern boarded door. Red brick stack to ridge.

Interior: frame exposed with stop chamfered main beams.

Listing NGR: TM3306655883

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
285187
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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