Furnaces At Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park

The furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, located in Morley Park, are a pair of coke iron furnaces dating from around 1780 and 1818, with restoration completed in 1986. They were built for Francis Hurt and are constructed from coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, featuring fire brick linings.

The structure includes two tall, tapering towers that are square in plan and partially built into the hillside. Each tower has deeply splayed pointed tapping arches on the west fronts, with small entrances into the kilns at the back, supported by iron lintels. The northern kiln features a raised oval datestone inscribed with '1818' above the arch, while the southern kiln has a similar but illegible datestone. Both kilns have smaller blowing arches on their north and south sides.

Iron climbing hoops are present at each corner of the northern kiln, leading up to the flat top. The southern kiln includes a semi-circular arched tunnel on its south side, providing access to the pointed blowing arch. The interiors of both kilns are tapering and cylindrical, lined with fire bricks. Additionally, the site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument No 187.