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Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie

A Category B Listed Building in Golspie, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.9745 / 57°58'28"N

Longitude: -3.9721 / 3°58'19"W

OS Eastings: 283452

OS Northings: 900057

OS Grid: NC834000

Mapcode National: GBR J7KN.96N

Mapcode Global: WH4D2.YTPK

Plus Code: 9C9RX2FH+Q5

Entry Name: Smithy, Anvil House, Main Street, Golspie

Listing Name: Golspie, Main Street, Smiddy to Rear of Anvil House

Listing Date: 22 February 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338771

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7005

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Golspie, Main Street, Anvil House, Smithy

ID on this website: 200338771

Location: Golspie

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton

Parish: Golspie

Traditional County: Sutherland

Tagged with: Smithy

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Description

Early 19th century smiddy with some later modifications.
L-plan single storey range. Squared pink rubble with some
snecking, roughly tooled dressings. NW facing elevation
advanced bay at left with door, to right horizontally
divided door and window; at extreme right low, slab-roofed
projection, probably for housing bellows. Stack on SW
gable.
Seaward elevation with gable at right, off-centre window,
unusual asymmetrical apex stack with light jamb joining
the skew at lower level than left. Stacks with
thackstanes. Corrugated-iron roof.

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