Description

18th and 19th century. Single storey pair of cottages
with smithy adjoined currently (1989) absorbed as
1 cottage. Pink sandstone rubble with stugged quoins
and droved window margins.
SW ELEVATION: irregular arrangement. 3-bay cottage to
right, with door flanked by windows. 3 bays to left with
former door blocked as window, further window and wide
machinery doors to outer left.
NE ELEVATION: gabled projection with forge at N; blank
gable with evidence of former opening/addition; door on
left return, window to right return. Modern
conservatory addition.
Variety of glazing pattern with diamond lead-paned
casement windows and plate glass, sash and case to rear.
Pantiles. Ashlar coped skews. Later stone stacks.
INTERIOR: hooded fire opening of forge in situ, with stone
seats and bellows to one side; carved initials. Grid of 4
square holes (labelled "Witches Niches") on mutual wall.
OUTBUILDING: earlier smithy. Gabled block to SW of The
Smiddy, with lean-to adjoined, serving as garden house and
tool-shed. Gabled porch breaking eaves above doorway on
NE side of lean-to. Truncated stack remaining.
RETAINING WALLS: rubble sandstone retaining walls to
garden at rear, and low wall by roadside.

Statement of Interest

Allegedly Queen Mary and entourage stopped at the smithy

on journey to Edinburgh, which would suggest that some of

smithy existed on the site at this earlier date. A further

smithy lay nearby at Pitcox, and the 1906 OS shows Acredale

and Little Acredale, opposite The Smiddy, also defined

as "Smithy". A further lean-to outbuilding to NW of

outbuilding described above, was formerly adjoined, though

it is not included in current listings. The Smiddy is

listed category B in respect of the forge and bellows

retained in the interior.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792588

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)