Survey Data
Reg No
32400802
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Lissadill House
Original Use
Forge/smithy
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
161977, 344673
Date Recorded
03/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey stone forge, built c. 1830. Rectangular plan in three sections one for shoeing horses, one for forging, and one for storage. Pitched roof missing entirely, brick chimneystacks with stepped capping. Squared and coursed rubble limestone walling, tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs, remnants of side-hung multi-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs, remnants of vertically-sheeted timber doors. Set back from road to north.
Appraisal
This, now abandoned, forge is of technological and historic significance as it must have served all the blacksmithing needs of a major demesne. The original forges remain in the interior.