Old Smithy
OLD SMITHY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318397
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SMITHY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318397
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1987
- 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:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whashton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 14888 06197
Details
NZ 1406-1506 WHASHTON WHASHTON
18/140 Old Smithy
- II
Disused smithy, now agricultural store. Probably late C18 and early-mid C19. Rubble, pantile and corrugated sheet roofs. Single storey. T-shaped plan, with older building to right, onto which later building has been added at right angles. Older smithy: leaved board doors to left, board stable door to right. Right-hand half of roof of corrugated sheets. Later smithy: external chimney stack to gable, later truncated; left return: quoins, from left, 2 window openings, leaved board doors below deep timber lintel of reused beams; chimney to left. Interior: older smithy has scar of smoke- hood on left, with corbelled stone stack at ridge level; later range has deep hearth with curved oak lintel to left gable, with C20 bellows; 2 king- post roof trusses.
Listing NGR: NZ1488806197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322841
- 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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