Description

Circa 1800; E gable dated 1841; byre and earth closet to W, new sheet roof, 1914. Single storey, rectangular-plan former smithy. Rubble masonry, rough-hewn ashlar dressings; corrugated asbestos roof to main building, slates to 1914 additions; 2 coped ridge stacks with thackstanes.

S ELEVATION: 2-leaf door to centre flanked by 12-pane fixed windows with timber casements to bottom; enlarged entrance to right, paired sliding doors; 2-leaf door to left; byre with lean-to earthcloset slightly recessed to far left (elevation masked by imber store). E GABLE: moulded segmental pediment indented at roof space. N ELEVATION: 2 boarded windows, fuel store entrance with boarded door. INTERIOR: hearths removed; shoe racks intact. BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls to N and S forming acute angle to W; pigsty in angle to W.

Statement of Interest

The smithy is prominently situated at a road junction in the centre of Fowlis. Although the hearths have been removed, the main workshop doors enlarged and the roof replaced, the smithy is listed for surviving features such as the doors and windows. The smithy is not shown on the 1799 map, although a smithy some distance to the west near Berryhill is shown as 'Thomson's smithy'. The indented segmental pediment on the east gable derives (according to MacGibbon and Ross) from Fowlis Castle, the date 1841 probably referring to its removal hither. The smithy house opposite is said to have contained a sculpted panelwith three figures taken from the top of the church sacrament house, and this was located above the door until alterations in circa 1909.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619587

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings