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Listed Building: FURNACES AT MORLEY PARK IRON WORKS, MORLEY PARK, PARK LANE (1108984)

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Grade II*
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1284, 5, 100
Date assigned 29 November 1965
Date last amended 25 May 2988

Description

'SK 34 NE RIPLEY PARK LANE (south side) 5/100 Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park (formerly listed as Old 29.11.65 Iron Works) II* Pair of coke iron furnaces. c1780 and 1818 with restoration 1986. Built for Francis Hurt. Coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, fire brick linings. Two tall tapering towers, square in plan and each partly built into the hillside. Both have deeply splayed pointed tapping arches to west fronts with small entrance into the kilns to the back under iron lintels. Northern kiln has raised oval datestone inscribed '1818' above the arch. Similar illegible datestone to southern kiln. Similar smaller blowing arches to north and south sides of each kiln. Iron climbing hoops to each corner of north kiln, up to the flat top. Southern kiln has semi-circular arched tunnel to south side allowing access to pointed blowing arch. Both kilns have tapering cylindrical interiors lined with fire bricks. Also a Scheduled Ancient Monument No 187. Sources: 'The Morley Park Iron Furnaces' by F Nixon, Derbyshire Life and Countryside April-June 1951. Listing NGR: SK3799849190.'

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Sources (1)

  • Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1108984?section=official-list-entry.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 37998 49190 (point)
Map sheet SK34NE
Civil Parish RIPLEY, AMBER VALLEY, DERBYSHIRE

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Oct 27 2023 3:52PM

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