Blacksmith's Shop

BLACKSMITH'S SHOP

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335516
Date first listed:
22-Sept-1983
List Entry Name:
Blacksmith's Shop
Statutory Address:
BLACKSMITH'S SHOP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335516
Date first listed:
22-Sept-1983
List Entry Name:
Blacksmith's Shop
Statutory Address 1:
BLACKSMITH'S SHOP

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLACKSMITH'S SHOP

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wetheral
National Grid Reference:
NY 47203 54393

Details

WETHERAL GREAT CORBY NY 4754

15/130 Blacksmith's Shop

II

Motor repair workshop, formerly blacksmith's shop. 1833, in Roman numerals on one pillar and initials C.M.H. (Howard) on the other, for the Howard family of Corby Castle. Tooled red sandstone ashlar with moulded dressings, slate roof and brick chimney stack. Single storey and attic, of one bay: built to represent Vulcan's forge. Porch has 2 short columns with free capitals, rounded moulded arch with carved circular panel (much weathered), moulded cornice and blocking course: round-headed entrance, with continuous roll-moulding which Pevsner (Buildings of England) considers to have come from a church and dates to c.1200. Decorative butresses to either side of porch, with short walls ending in moulded piers, form back-rest to stone seats. Covered porch was for shoeing horses. Thick iron studded oak door and no windows to front.

Listing NGR: NY4720354393

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Legacy System number:
77712
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967)

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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