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forge/smithy — DRUMMANREAGH

forge/smithy
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forge/smithy — DRUMMANREAGH
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Detached gable-fronted single-storey forge, dated 1869, having horseshoe entrance to front, and two-bay side elevations, with single-bay single-storey addition to rear, and projecting bay with catslide roof to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards and exposed rafter ends to front, and having brick chimneystack with cut-stone coping. Snecked rubble limestone walls, having cast-iron date plaque over entrance with coronet, date and letter 'B' (for Bath estate). Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone lintels and cut limestone sills, now closed with corrugated-iron sheeting. Horseshoe arch has cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf door. Cast-iron lion's head with tethering rings to either side of door. Set in concrete yard with two outbuildings having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Twentieth-century house to west having horseshoe detail to gates.
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