Former smithy

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A small single-storey rubble stone building with a modern dry dash finish painted white, now linked to a two-storey house.

Roofs of Bangor blue slates in irregular courses; small modern red chimney pot at one gable; PVC rainwater goods; original rear elevation has a large modern rectangular PVC window; one gable is blank, the other has a small rectangular PVC fixed light in the apex; the original front elevation has modern rectangular PVC sliding doors beside a projecting lower slated and rendered single storey link block connecting with an adjacent two-storey house.
Link block has rectangular PVC windows; main house has rendered walls, slated roofs, semi-circular headed sashed gable windows, and rectangular PVC windows.

SETTING: The building stands in a rural area, with its gable close to the main road, now joined to the house which it formerly stood behind. Approached from the rear by a driveway from a side road, ending in a yard, with a grassed garden along one side.

Historical information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1833, along with a detached building, presumably a house, adjacent to it. Rebuilt in 1930, according to an inscription inside; joined to adjacent house by a single storey link block in 1999.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1833, Co Antrim 56.
2. Inscribed stone inside building.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a building which was of some limited interest as a former smithy which retained its original interior fittings but which has now lost a number of its original features and its original character as a freestanding structure.