The Old Smithy
THE OLD SMITHY, YEOVIL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379610
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SMITHY, YEOVIL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379610
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SMITHY, YEOVIL 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, YEOVIL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63293 16820
Details
ST 6316 SHERBORNE YEOVIL ROAD
689/5/10004 The Old Smithy
GV II
Blacksmith's shop. Circa mid C19 remodelling of an earlier building. Stone rubble with dressed stone quoins. Plain tile, pantile and fishscale slate roofs with gabled ends. Brick axial stacks. Ridge ventilator.
PLAN: Rectangular smithy open to the roof at centre, with gable-end stacks with hearth at either end, and front wall built out with large 5-light window range; 1-bay 2-storey range at either end.
EXTERIOR: The single storey centre breaks forward under a lean-to roof of fishscale slates and with a 5-light window range with overlapping panes. 1-bay 2-storey ranges to left and right with 2-light casements on first floor, 3-light window on ground floor to left and doorway to right.
INTERIOR: Hearths at either end. 3-bay queen-strut roof heavily smoke-blackened. Fully equipped with blacksmith's tools.
NOTE: This smithy is the premises of the King family, who is said to have practised here for 400 years.
Listing NGR: ST6329316820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479001
- 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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