Smithy Cottage
SMITHY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054229
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHY COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054229
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMITHY COTTAGE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selattyn and Gobowen
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 26626 33976
Details
SELATTYN AND GOBOWEN C.P. SELATTYN SJ 23 SE 4/47 Smithy Cottage GV II Cottage. Probably C17 with later additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble; graded slate roof has coped verges to left and integral end stack with dripstone. 2-room plan with integral end stack behind entrance to gable end. 2 storeys. Mid-C19 casements, one to left of centre on ground floor and one on each floor to right. Wide sloping buttress and infilled opening to left. Boarded door to left gable end and secondary internal end stack in roof slope to right. C19 rubblestone lean-to to rear on right and addition set back to left. Interior. Deep-chamfered spine beams and heavy joists to ground- floor rooms; timber framed cross wall and wall posts visible beneath wallpaper. Large inglenook fireplace with C19 mantel-shelf to left room and Victorian cast-iron grate to fireplace in right room. The plan form appears to be a type illustrated in P. Smith, Houses of the Welsh Countryside (1975) Fig.185; pls.45, 100 and 101.
Listing NGR: SJ2662533977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, P, Houses of the Welsh Countryside A Study in Historical Geography, (1975), 45 100-1
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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