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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
84279
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/03/2005
Date of Amendment
23/03/2005
Name of Property
The Old Smithy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Yscir
Town
Brecon
Locality
Cradoc
Easting
301730
Northing
230567
Street Side
Location
On the SW side of the road junction on the E side of Cradoc village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House and smithy, C19, the house formerly the Post Office. Marked as smithy on 1889 OS map. The grave of James Arthur, died 1938 aged 84, of The Smithy, Cradoc, in Battle churchyard has a carved stone anvil.
Exterior
House, pebble-dashed with slate roof and roughcast short end stacks. Two storeys with square 6-pane hopper windows, one each floor to left, to left of half-glazed door, one each floor to right, spaced further from door, and another to first floor further right over left side of a broad square-headed cart-shed opening. Tooled stone sills. Letterbox in wall to right of door.
Smithy is whitewashed rubble with slate roof to similar ridge and eaves line, but slightly different pitch. Facade is canted from house front, with two broad boarded loft openings under eaves and a broad cambered-headed shuttered window each side of a segmental-arched centre doorway with board door. Stone voussoirs to lower openings, stone sills. Curved lower corner to right. Whitewashed right end wall with small stone gable stack, lean-to rear.
Interior
Interior of smithy said to retain original hearth and stone floors.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a good example of a C19 smithy with attached house.
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