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
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house, study centre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO 60 NW WEST DEAN NEW ROAD, PARKEND (east side)
9/155 Dean Field Studies Centre
II
Former Blowing Engine House, now study centre (since 1908). 1849. Coursed and dressed rubblestone with battered front and back walls, hipped slate roof, one twin stone stack in south west corner, overhanging eaves. 4 storeys with central 3-storey "porch" projection. 3 windows, including porch - twin wooden casements including 2 mullions above forming ventilator. "Porch" supported on 2 Tuscan columns with wooden frieze and cornice, slate hung above with hipped slate roof also with overhanging eaves. Single large rectangular range with lower extensions to left and rear, later with hipped slate roof and large semi-circuLar window on south side. The extensive furnaces at Parkend were originally blown by bellows powered by a waterwheel 51' in diameter and a 90hp steam engine was added in 1849 as supplementary power.
Listing NGR: SO6168007887
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