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Machrimore Smiddy
Date 11 June 1990
Event ID 892742
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/892742
Unaltered mid 19th century estate-built smithy. Single-storey, 4 bays (3+1) containing forge and, to E, shoeing shop. Boarded 2-leaf door flanked by stone-mullioned bipartites; wider sliding door to shoeing shop at right is also boarded. Windows part shuttered, part glazed (upper part of each 4-pane). Rubble-built with ashlar dressing and raised margins. Slate roof with bracketted eaves and roof-lights; pair brick stacks and louvred axial roof ventilator.
Disused since 1960s, but interior intact (1990), including most of extensive range of original machinery and tools: forge and bellows on W gable; hand-powered beam-drill at bench fixed to SW window; gearing in attic-storey. The horse-frame in shoeing shop is an unusual survival. Corrugated iron-roofed lean-to on W gable. (Historic Scotland)
