The Smithy
THE SMITHY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192141
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- THE SMITHY
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- 2002-12-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/09675/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192141
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE SMITHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 06787 44250
Details
SK 04 SE FARLEY C.P. FARLEY
7/124 The Smithy 3/1/67 GV II
Smithy. 1780, remodelled 1849 and repaired 1979. Coursed and squared freestone blocks with herringbone tooling; plain tile roof with shaped tile bands and coped verges and ball finial to the left; ashlar ridge stack and integral end stacks. Aligned north-east/south-west facing north-west. One storey and attic with hollow chamfered eaves band; 4 bays, 2-leaf smithy door with C20 cambered lintel and decorative strap hinges, gabled break to right of centre and cambered arch door with ogee moulded surround, inserted datestone above inscribed "ABC/1979". 2- light chamfer mullioned attic window with rebated surround, single-light ground floor windows to left and right of gabled break, with chamfered surrounds. The 1962 provisional list notes 2 inscriptions over the doorway "C.B. 1780" and "I.B. 1849", these have been removed and replaced by the inscription mentioned above.
Listing NGR: SK0678744250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275119
- 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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