Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1965. A Industrial Industrial.
Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park
- WRENN ID
- hidden-bracket-torch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1965
- Type
- Industrial
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park, Park Lane, Ripley
- OS grid reference
- SK 379 491
- Coordinates
- 53.03866, -1.43476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Morley Park receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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