Description

DENT

SD7087 BEECH HILL, Dent Town
162-1/24/178 (East side)
14/06/84 Hodgson's cottage and attached
smithy
(Formerly Listed as:
BEECH HILL
Hodgson's Cottage)
(Formerly Listed as:
BEECH HILL
Hodgson's Smithy)

GV II

Also known as: Smithy BEECH HILL.
House with attached warehouse (now a shop) and attached
smithy. Probably late C17 or earlier C18, smithy probably
added in C18; altered. White-washed roughly-coursed rubble
with quoins, stone slate roof. T-plan formed by a single-depth
2-unit range on a north-south axis facing west, set back from
the road, with a 1-unit wing (the warehouse) projected from
the left half and a 1-unit smithy attached to the north gable.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:2 windows. The 2-window main range has
a square-headed doorway abutting the wing, with a part-glazed
door, two 4-pane sashes on each floor, a corbelled square
chimney at the right-hand gable, and a similar corbelled
chimney at the left gable (cut down but visible in the smithy
loft). The re-entrant side of the wing has a square-headed
doorway in the centre, with a board door, a square 4-pane
fixed window to the left and a square 6-pane fixed window
above; its gable wall has a tall 12-pane fixed window offset
to the right at 1st floor (probably formerly a loading
doorway), and a corbelled square chimney. Rear: renewed sashes
on both floors. INTERIOR: house modernised; warehouse has
flagged floor, stone fireplace, small pantry in rear left
corner and quarter-turn stone staircase in rear right-hand
corner; upper floor open to the roof.
The SMITHY, set back at the left end, 2 low storeys and 2
windows, partly obscured by a monopitched slate roof attached
at 1st floor, has a large doorway offset to the right and 2
small windows above. Its rear wall, of mixed random rubble,
has a doorway next to the house, with a wooden lintel and a
board door with strap hinges, a 6-pane fixed window to the
right and a narrow 4-pane window above. Its INTERIOR has a
pair of large chamfered beams, and a complete fully-equipped
smithy with forge, bellows, anvil and tools (still in use in
the 1970s). Adjoins Beech Hill Cottage (qv) to the left, and
is part of an important group facing the Church of St Andrew
(qv).

Listing NGR: SD7057487027

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663657

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