Description

EGLINGHAM EGLINGHAM VILLAGE NU 1019 (North side) 19/159 Smithy Cottage with attached smithy and outbuilding GV II

Cottage, smithy and outbuilding. Cottage and smithy early C18 altered C19; outbuilding c.1840. Cottage and smithy largely roughly-squared stone with later tooled-and-margined dressings; outbuilding squared tooled stone with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof except for C20 metal sheets on outbuilding.

South elevation in 3 sections, each 1 storey, 2 bays. Cottage on left has boarded door with 2-pane overlight in later rustic porch, flanked by 4-pane sash windows with C19 lintels and slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables; small stepped end stacks. Lower smithy in centre has boarded double doors, with boarded window on left and blacksmith's window on right, all in C19 alternating-block surrounds. Coped right gable with reduced stack. Outbuilding to right has boarded double doors under segmental arch on left, boarded door and window on right; coped right gable.

Interior: Smithy has original forge with arched recesses flanking hearth and massive roughly-chamfered lintel. Bellows now in adjacent outbuilding, which was probably built as a stable for the former Ogle Arms Inn (see No. 12, q.v.).

Listing NGR: NU1095019455

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)