Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote steel furnace (The Cone)
Derwentcote Steel Furnace Museum, Forge Lane, Hamsterley Colliery, Durham, NE17 7RS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240411
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote steel furnace (The Cone)
- Statutory Address:
- Derwentcote Steel Furnace Museum, Forge Lane, Hamsterley Colliery, Durham, NE17 7RS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240411
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote steel furnace (The Cone)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Derwentcote Steel Furnace Museum, Forge Lane, Hamsterley Colliery, Durham, NE17 7RS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Derwentcote Steel Furnace Museum, Forge Lane, Hamsterley Colliery, Durham, NE17 7RS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ1304456511
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 September 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
NZ 15 NW
1/40
CONSETT
Hamsterley Colliery
FORGE LANE (east side)
Derwentcote Steel Furnace Museum
Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote steel furnace (The Cone)
(Formerly listed as Hamsterley Colliery Derwent Cote steel furnace ("The Cone"), FORGE LANE)
6/6/51
GV
I
Steel-making furnace. First half of eighteenth century, for the cementation process. Coursed sandstone rubble with some ashlar dressings; no roof at time of survey. One storey, four bays with high cone on second bay furnace. three buttresses support cone; small square openings between buttresses, that at right blocked; rough wood lintels to partly-blocked door to right of furnace, and empty window in first bay; stone sill to window in fourth bay (with ruined lintel) has O.S. bench mark. Return gables survive to full height, the left with large buttress. Rear elevation shows three buttresses to furnace, the central truncated and the left built into later one storey, one bay outshut. High stone cone has two
square flue openings at top of ground floor; cone contains square opening with rebated stone lintel and jambs and plain stone sill.
Interior: iron lintels over funnelled entrances to cone, with inner brick pointed arch in that at right and stone lintel in that at left, both flanked by buttresses.
The only complete surviving example in England of a cementation furnace. Empty and derelict at time of survey. An Ancient Monument in Guardianship.
Listing NGR: NZ1304456511
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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