HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY

HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY, BEECH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383804
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY
Statutory Address:: HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY, BEECH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383804
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY
Statutory Address 1:: HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY, BEECH HILL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HODGSONS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SMITHY, BEECH HILL

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District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dent
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 70574 87024

Details

DENT

SD7087 BEECH HILL, Dent Town 162-1/24/178 (East side) 14/06/84 Hodgson's cottage and attached smithy (Formerly Listed as: BEECH HILL Hodgson's Cottage) (Formerly Listed as: BEECH HILL Hodgson's Smithy)

GV II

Also known as: Smithy BEECH HILL. House with attached warehouse (now a shop) and attached smithy. Probably late C17 or earlier C18, smithy probably added in C18; altered. White-washed roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. T-plan formed by a single-depth 2-unit range on a north-south axis facing west, set back from the road, with a 1-unit wing (the warehouse) projected from the left half and a 1-unit smithy attached to the north gable. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:2 windows. The 2-window main range has a square-headed doorway abutting the wing, with a part-glazed door, two 4-pane sashes on each floor, a corbelled square chimney at the right-hand gable, and a similar corbelled chimney at the left gable (cut down but visible in the smithy loft). The re-entrant side of the wing has a square-headed doorway in the centre, with a board door, a square 4-pane fixed window to the left and a square 6-pane fixed window above; its gable wall has a tall 12-pane fixed window offset to the right at 1st floor (probably formerly a loading doorway), and a corbelled square chimney. Rear: renewed sashes on both floors. INTERIOR: house modernised; warehouse has flagged floor, stone fireplace, small pantry in rear left corner and quarter-turn stone staircase in rear right-hand corner; upper floor open to the roof. The SMITHY, set back at the left end, 2 low storeys and 2 windows, partly obscured by a monopitched slate roof attached at 1st floor, has a large doorway offset to the right and 2 small windows above. Its rear wall, of mixed random rubble, has a doorway next to the house, with a wooden lintel and a board door with strap hinges, a 6-pane fixed window to the right and a narrow 4-pane window above. Its INTERIOR has a pair of large chamfered beams, and a complete fully-equipped smithy with forge, bellows, anvil and tools (still in use in the 1970s). Adjoins Beech Hill Cottage (qv) to the left, and is part of an important group facing the Church of St Andrew (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7057487027

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Legacy System:: LBS

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