SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW

SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW, FORE STREET

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A smithy, now in use as a storage space, dating from the early- to mid C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327692
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW
Statutory Address:: SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327692
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Jun-2015
List Entry Name:: SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW
Statutory Address 1:: SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW, FORE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SMITHY 5 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH VIEW, FORE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Teath
National Grid Reference:: SX0648880599

Summary

A smithy, now in use as a storage space, dating from the early- to mid C19.

Reasons for Designation

The smithy 5 metres east of Church View, Fore Street, St Teath, Cornwall, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Architectural interest: as a good example of small early- to mid-C19 smithy displaying good quality architectural detailing. * Historic Interest: as an interesting and poignant reminder of the important role of small metal industry within rural communities. * Intactness: the building has survived mostly intact.

History

The smithy on Fore Street, as indicated by the 1841 Tithe Map and Apportionment for St Teath, appears to have formed part of a group of buildings facing Fore Street, with a yard to the rear. At that time these were owned by WC Hockin and occupied by a number of tenants. By 1906, as recorded in Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, they were owned / used by Mrs Sarah Hockin, a farmer from nearby Trewennen.

By 1841, St Teath had a commercial blacksmith, William Henry Hicks, who was still trading in 1906. His smithy stood just 25m to the south-west of the smithy on Fore Street, now known as Forge Cottage (listed at Grade II). By 1906 there was another blacksmith in the village, Thomas Auger, but it is not known where he had his premises.

Details

A former smithy dating from the early- to mid-C19.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed in stone rubble, with cob to the west gable end. The north front facing Fore Street is rendered and painted. The pitched roof is covered in Cornish slate with plain red ridge tiles. As stated in the List entry published in 1988, it had at least one crested ridge tile and a brick end stack in the front roof slope to the right, both now lost.

PLAN: the single-storey building has a rectangular open plan with a central entrance. The location of the former forge is believed to have been to the right of the removed stack.

EXTERIOR: the north front has a plank door to the centre flanked by a C19 part shuttered window on the left and a C19 single-light casement to the right. The west gable end has small C19 four-light casement window, set off-centre to the right. The rear elevation could not be seen.

INTERIOR: the building has a C19 timber coupled rafter roof. Its ridge piece appears to have been replaced.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 68602
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Cornwall County Council - St Teath Conservation Area Appraissal - endorsed June 2008, accessed 31 March 2015 from http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638404/St-Teath-CAA-endorsed.pdf
St Teath Village Website - with Tithe Map & Apportionment, accessed 1 April 2015 from http://old.stteath.co.uk/features/tithes/tithes.php
Other
Kelly's Directory for Cornwall, 1906, p.320

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.