Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Smithy at Forge Cottage
Stackpole and Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Twynnells, Stackpole and Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, designated on 8 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1996
- Locality
- St Twynnells
- Community
- Stackpole and Castlemartin
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63427, -4.95571
- Cadw reference
- 17989
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Exterior
Adjacent to Forge cottage, at N.
Smithy believed to have been set up by Dick Williams (1854-1930) in c.1875, and used for the Stackpole Estate. Several of his sons followed in the same trade and may have been apprenticed to their father here. One set up a smithy at Cheriton.
Description: Large single-room smithy built at N of Forge Cottage. Two blacksmith's hearths sharing a W gable chimney. Partially rough-cast rendered externally together with the house, but plain rubble masonry at far side and rear. Four-bay slate covered roof with ridge-vents. Short brick chimney. Trusses with tiebeams and collar beams. Small windows at N and E only, with workbenches at sills. Cobbled floor. Large entrance doorway, originally open, at SE corner facing the house.
The hearth at the N of the two appears to be the earlier. It is complete with bellows and tuyere, but the supporting frame for the bellows is missing. The hearth at the S is set at an angle and has an extraordinary brick arched flue into the chimney. Elm-block set in the floor for a (missing) anvil, at left. Bellows with tuyere at rear, the supporting frame broken. Broken stone bosh at right. Both hearths are still full of breeze. Bars and racks for tools on the walls.
A circular cast-iron plate with a central hole, for supporting wheels for banding, lies in the garden in front of the house.
Listed as a good example of a village smithy with two nearly complete hearths.
References: Local information (Mr and Mrs Nicholas)
Rev. J H Richards, St Twvnnells Parish Registers Index (1992)
Nearby in the register
- Dovecote at Forge CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Liserry FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Twynnell's Church CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. Twynnell's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.