The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate and Gate Piers
THE OLD SMITHY, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, RAILING, GATE AND GATE PIERS, BRIXHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293092
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SMITHY, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, RAILING, GATE AND GATE PIERS, BRIXHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/04732/21
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293092
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SMITHY, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, RAILING, GATE AND GATE PIERS, BRIXHAM ROAD
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 OLD SMITHY, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, RAILING, GATE AND GATE PIERS, BRIXHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90062 55796
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/6/48 (South side) 10/01/75 The Old Smithy, incl. front garden wall, railing, gate and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers The Old Smithy and outbuilding adjoining Nos 1 & 2 to NE)
GV II
Smith's house, now a private dwelling. Dated 1870. Front and side walls of squared Devonian limestone with large dressed quoins, door and window-arches. Slated roof with red crested ridge-tiles. Red-brick chimney on each end wall; top courses project to form caps; 2 round pots on each. Double-fronted, double-depth plan. On the left side of the house is the former stable, forge and cart-house; these are separately listed as Ye Old Forge (qv). 2 storeys. 2 windows wide with gabled centre projection containing the doorway. Openings have segmental arches with raised keystones. Plank door with strap-hinges. 6-paned sashes. Under the centre gable, which has plain bargeboards, is a stone plaque with the letter C and a coronet (for Lord Churston) and the date 1870. Subsidiary features: Low stone rubble front garden wall with flat stone coping. On it stands a low iron railing with widely-spaced uprights carrying a horizontal bar, each upright finished with a moulded finial. 2 stone ashlar gate piers; iron gate with spearhead uprights, alternately short and tall.
Listing NGR: SX9005955794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383555
- 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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