One storey flint building with brick dressings and gabled slate roof.
Ovingdean CA
LLHA0157
One storey flint building with brick dressings and gabled slate roof. Formerly the village smithy, it is now used as parking. The building is in need of repair, but its current use has meant it has not been subject to particularly harmful alterations to allow conversion. The structure is located at a prominent position at the corner of the main road; set back from the road behind a low flint wall and grassed area. It is first evident on the c.1870 OS map, where it is identified as a smithy. As such, it would have performed an important function within this farming community.
ii As the original smithy for the village, it would have performed an important function within this farming village, and acts as a reminder of the agricultural antecedents of the area.
iii Its unconverted form, location at the heart of the village and setting as a single building in an open grassed area mean the building forms a minor landmark in the area.
ii Representative of this building type, which would have been at the heart of every downland village in the area. Few examples survive, of which most have been converted. F Intactness i The building survives relatively intact, in that it has not been converted.
2015
