Site Event/Activity record ECH6518 - Proposed Residential Development, Smithy Cottage, Chapel Lane, Hargrave, Cheshire: Heritage Appraisal

Heritage assessment produced in 2013 for Smithy Cottage, Church Lane, Hargrave, in advance of proposed demolition and re-development. Smithy Cottage is an example of an unlisted vernacular cottage, of late eighteenth or early nineteenth century date. It has two storeys, with external walls of stone and brick covered in render and hung concrete tiles. The gable roof is covered in large slates, with one brick chimney stack to the east end. The gable ends of the roof have stone kneelers and coping stones. It may, originally, have been built as a field barn on the edge of the common land as it is not mentioned in the tithe apportionment, whereas houses generally are. It could have had an association to Hargrave Hall located to the north of the site, although there is no evidence for this.