Description

18th century smithy with 2 later smithy houses with later alterations in prominent continuous row, at bend in road. Rubble with squared stone dressings and harl pointing, cement repairs to openings of smithy houses.

SMITHY: in poor condition. Single storey, 3-bay smithy with door to centre flanked by windows. Windows and door to rear. Steeply pitched gables.

INTERIOR: forge to outer gable with working hearth in place.

Plate glass glazing in sash and case windows. Boarded door. Brick coped skews and brick stack. Red pantiles with 3 sections of clear glazing tiles.

SMITHY HOUSES: set back slightly from smithy. 2-storey with 1st floor breaking eaves, 4-bay. Fanlit, boarded doors with relieving arches over in bays to centre with windows to outer bays and gabled dormerheads breaking eaves above outer bays and between those to centre, outer dormerheads with stone coping. Blank return gable. Openings to rear.

12-pane and 4-pane sash and case windows. Stone coping to skews and harled stacks. Grey slates.

Statement of Interest

Fronting Peaston Steading, opposite now ruinous former bothy houses and the grieve's house (listed separately). A good example of East Lothian vernacular.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774294

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas