The Bedlam Furnace is a Grade II* listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1968. Furnace. 3 related planning applications.
The Bedlam Furnace
- WRENN ID
- hushed-chapel-auburn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1968
- Type
- Furnace
- Address
- The Bedlam Furnace, Waterloo Street, the Gorge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 678 033
- Coordinates
- 52.62703, -2.47684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bedlam Furnace is an early 18th-century blast furnace located on Waterloo Street in Ironbridge. It has a square plan and features a brick-lined chamber with a partly bricked pointed-arch opening facing the road, as well as another partly bricked opening on the right side. The front of the furnace is supported by two stone lean-to buttresses, one of which contains a circular aperture with a small arched opening below. The furnace ceased operations when the Blists Hill Ironworks was established in the early 19th century. It is believed that this furnace is the one depicted in the well-known painting 'Coalbrookdale by Night' by PJ de Loutherbourg, created around 1801.
Local climate
The Bedlam Furnace receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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