We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 54.7634 / 54°45'48"N
Longitude: -4.5372 / 4°32'14"W
OS Eastings: 236854
OS Northings: 543898
OS Grid: NX368438
Mapcode National: GBR HJ53.NG5
Mapcode Global: WH3VC.8JNM
Plus Code: 9C6QQF77+94
Entry Name: Smithy, Clachan Of Myrton
Listing Name: Clachan of Myrton, Myrton Smithy
Listing Date: 11 November 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350656
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16836
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350656
Location: Mochrum
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Mochrum
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Smithy
Later 19th century. Single storey smithy. Adjoined to modernised single storey and attic, 2-bay cottage, Smithy House, forming L-plan to rear. Painted rubble.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: opening to left, with timber lintel and sliding steel machinery door. Cottage adjoined to right.
S ELEVATION: window to right, with timber mullion and transom dividing to 16 small panes. Partly-glazed window to left of centre. Timber and corrugated sheet metal lean-to adjoined to left.
W ELEVATION: painted rubble lean-to (former byre) adjoined to width of gable; door to right to S; corrugated sheet metal roof. Gable partly rendered above.
N ELEVATION: partly-glazed window at centre. Small modern porch (to house) to left, filling re-entrant angle. Roof piended to E, gabled to W. Modern purple slates to E pitch; small grey slates to S
pitch; corrugated sheet asbestos to N, with slates in re-entrant angle to E. Granite dressed rubble stacks; gablehead to W, ridge off-centre to E. Red sandstone ridge and thackstanes. 2 rooflights each to N and S pitches.
INTERIOR: 2 apartments, with dividing rubble wall. Shoeing shed in apartment to E; some setts to floor. Smithy in apartment to W; metal-canopied brick and stone forge to W wall with bellows; brick-canopied forge to E wall. Water pump to S.
The Smithy does not appear to be marked on the OS Map of 1848, but it is marked as "Smithy" on the OS Map of 1906. The survival of the fine bellows is of particular interest.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
