Old Smithy
OLD SMITHY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175851
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SMITHY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175851
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SMITHY
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:
- OLD SMITHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chirbury with Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 29111 97372
Details
CHIRBURY C.P. PRIESTWESTON SO 29 NE
8/72 Old Smithy -
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C14 or C15, remodelled C17 and late C18 with later additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble, rendered to front and gable ends; slate roof, graded to front. Original plan an open hall, probably of 3 cruck-framed bays, floored over C17 and eaves raised late C18. 2 storeys; late C20 fenestration, 3 casements directly below eaves to first floor, one to left and one to centre on ground floor with contemporary 6-panel door to right; external end stack to left has C20 rendered lean-to abutting, ridge stack to left of entrance. Interior: 2 deep-chamfered spine beams with flat heavy joists to main ground-floor room; 2 inglenook fireplaces with chamfered wooden lintels beneath ridge stack; one true cruck truss with cambered collar exposed to first bay from left and one cruck blade visible to second bay; apexes of both not inspected at time of resurvey (November 1985) but said to survive in roof space; another cruck truss is said to survive beneath render to left gable end and parts of another are believed to have been removed from right gable end.
Listing NGR: SO2911197372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257397
- 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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