Dean Field Studies Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. Engine house, study centre. 3 related planning applications.
Dean Field Studies Centre
- WRENN ID
- under-gutter-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house, study centre
- Address
- Dean Field Studies Centre, New Road, West Dean, GL15 4JA
- OS grid reference
- SO 616 078
- Coordinates
- 51.76834, -2.55672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dean Field Studies Centre is a former blowing engine house that has been used as a study centre since 1908. Built in 1849, it features coursed and dressed rubblestone with battered front and back walls, and a hipped slate roof. The building stands four storeys tall, with a central three-storey "porch" projection. It has three windows, including those in the porch, which contains twin wooden casements with two mullions above that form a ventilator. The porch is supported by two Tuscan columns and has a wooden frieze and cornice, with slate hung above and a hipped slate roof that also has overhanging eaves. The main structure is a single large rectangular range with lower extensions to the left and rear, which also feature a hipped slate roof and a large semi-circular window on the south side. Originally, the extensive furnaces at Parkend were powered by bellows driven by a 51-foot diameter waterwheel, and a 90 horsepower steam engine was added in 1849 for supplementary power.
Local climate
Dean Field Studies Centre receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- 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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