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The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate and Gate Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Churston-with-Galmpton, Torbay

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3917 / 50°23'30"N

Longitude: -3.5479 / 3°32'52"W

OS Eastings: 290062

OS Northings: 55796

OS Grid: SX900557

Mapcode National: GBR QW.1S2N

Mapcode Global: FRA 38G0.FLW

Plus Code: 9C2R9FR2+MR

Entry Name: The Old Smithy, Including Front Garden Wall, Railing, Gate and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 10 January 1975

Last Amended: 18 October 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1293092

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383555

ID on this website: 101293092

Location: Churston Ferrers, Torbay, Devon, TQ5

County: Torbay

Electoral Ward/Division: Churston-with-Galmpton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Churston Ferrers St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description



BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers
1946-1/6/48 (South side)
10/01/75 The Old Smithy, incl. front garden
wall, railing, gate and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers
The Old Smithy and outbuilding
adjoining Nos 1 & 2 to NE)

GV II

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

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