The Old Smithy

THE OLD SMITHY, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1382076
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1972
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SMITHY, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1382076
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1972
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD SMITHY, CHURCH ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD SMITHY, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Claverdon
National Grid Reference:
SP 20005 64752

Details

CLAVERDON

SP26SW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/6/27 (North side)
02/08/72 The Old Smithy

GV II

Smithy. Late C17 with later alterations and restorations.
Small timber-framing with reddish brick infill in stretcher
bond, on limestone plinth with weatherboarding to left end and
plain-tile roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 2-unit plan. Horse-shoe shaped timber
entrance to left unit. Right unit has plank door within giving
access to smithy. 2 fixed-light windows with plank shutters.
Forge ash tray to right gable. Further timbering to left
gable. Gabled roof, hipped to left. Right end stack.
INTERIOR: has cobbled floor to right; forge to right end has
brick forge.
Forms a group with The Forge House (qv).
(Victoria County History: Styles P (ed): County of Warwick:
Barlichway Hundred: London: 1945-: 69).




Listing NGR: SP2000564752

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Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 69

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