Listing Text

SX 99 NE POLTIMORE POLTIMORE

5/159 The Old Smithy
-

GV II

House. C17 with C19 additions and remodelling. 2-room C17 cottage with C19 rear
block making a double-depth plan. Cob, stone plinth, roughcast, under gabled-end
wheat reed thatched roof; the rear block under gabled-end slate roof. 2
storeys. Front: Symmetrical 3-window range; 3-light windows above under eyebrow
eaves, each light round-headed, with polygonal leaded panes and original catches.
(q.v. Cogswells opposite). Porch on shaped brackets. Early C19 planked door and
frame. Ground floor windows, 3-lights, square headed, under Tudor-style hood
moulds. Left-hand side elevation: C20 roundel at ground-floor. C19 oriel,
1:3:1 supported on shaped struts, roof slated; each light under round-headed
arch; re-leaded in circa 1900, but retaining some early C19 coloured glass. 2
ground floor C20 windows to rear block. Rear elevation: 2 and 3-light metal-
framed windows of circa 1920. Interior: 2 chamfered beams to right-hand room,
with step-hollow stops. Upper rooms also with cross beams, stopped and
chamfered. Roof : principals, morticed and pegged, with original thatch to front
with C17 untarred string to bundles.

Listing NGR: SX9654596896