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Listed building outline: The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate And Gate Piers 383555

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The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate And Gate Piers 383555

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.547889 50.391767,-3.548033 50.391826,-3.547895...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1293092
• name: The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate And Gate Piers
• notes: Smith's house, now a private dwelling. Dated 1870. Front and side walls of squared Devonian limestone with large dressed quoins, door and window-arches. Slated roof with red crested ridge-tiles. Red-brick chimney on each end wall; top courses project to form caps; 2 round pots on each. Double-fronted, double-depth plan. On the left side of the house is the former stable, forge and cart-house; these are separately listed as Ye Old Forge (qv). 2 storeys. 2 windows wide with gabled centre projection containing the doorway. Openings have segmental arches with raised keystones. Plank door with strap-hinges. 6-paned sashes. Under the centre gable, which has plain bargeboards, is a stone plaque with the letter C and a coronet (for Lord Churston) and the date 1870. Subsidiary features: Low stone rubble front garden wall with flat stone coping. On it stands a low iron railing with widely-spaced uprights carrying a horizontal bar, each upright finished with a moulded finial. 2 stone ashlar gate piers; iron gate with spearhead uprights, alternately short and tall. Listing NGR: SX9005955794
• reference: 383555
• start-date: 1975-01-10