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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

Tagged with: Smithy

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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