Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Smithy
Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1966
- Locality
- Llanrhaeadr
- Town
- Denbigh
- Community
- Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15987, -3.37514
- Cadw reference
- 794
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located to the NE of the church, facing the churchyard, immediately opposite the lychgate.
History
Purpose-built smithy, probably late C18, with double forge and open shoeing bay.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storey smithy; of limestone rubble construction with slate roof. The building is in two sections, continuously-roofed: the main double-forge smithy section is on the L and has (former) domestic accommodation above; a part-open, full-height shoeing bay occupies the R. The main section has a near-centre entrance with original boarded folding door (partly restored). Flanking this are 2-pane plain-glazed modern windows to primary, segmentally-arched openings; that to the R is wider than the other and has external boarded shutters. The attic floor has 2 catslide dormers containing 16-pane, part-tilting windows; slate-hung sides. The shoeing bay, to the R, has low rubble walls to the left side, with the right-hand section open, and has a full-height central rubble pier. The upper section is open to the eaves. First floor entrance with boarded door to the L gable, with a lean-to log store in front. Adjoining the R gable, stepped down, though flush with the main building, is a single-bay carthouse addition. This has a large entrance with curved oak bressummer and modern, horizontally-boarded doors.
Interior
The smithy has a large semi-circular forge built against the L gable end, with crudely-stepped internal stack of stone and brick. To the R of this is a part-blocked passage, rubble-lined. The rear wall has a recess with some roof corbelling relating to the second forge, now gone. Smoke-blackened, random-joisted ceiling beams; stone-flagged floors. The shoeing bay is of 2 bays with an inserted modern floor to part of it, and with a modern wooden stair giving access to the attic floor of the smithy proper. This is accessed via a C19 first floor lath-and plaster wind porch. The attic floor is of 2 bays and retains its wattle and dawb and lime-hair partitioning; blocked window to the gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a late C18 purpose-built smithy retaining good original character externally and internally.
Group value with Smithy Cottage and other listed items at St Dyfnog's Church.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Smithy CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St DyfnogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate and Churchyard Walls, including Sundial Base, at St Dyfnog's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.