Furnace House at Ridsdale Iron Works is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Industrial building.
Furnace House at Ridsdale Iron Works
- WRENN ID
- carved-chalk-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Furnace House at Ridsdale Iron Works, A68, Corsenside
- OS grid reference
- NY 909 847
- Coordinates
- 55.15671, -2.14406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The furnace house at Ridsdale Iron Works is an early 19th-century structure. It is built of random rubble with ashlar quoins and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is one tall storey and three bays long. It has double doors located in a later gabled ashlar porch on the gable end. Each long side of the building has three tall 12-pane windows, and on the left side, there are two square lateral chimney stacks with cornices and dripstones. The roof is gabled. This building is within the boundary of a Scheduled Ancient Monument. There is an adjacent similar building that has been altered and is no longer of special interest.
Local climate
Furnace House at Ridsdale Iron Works receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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