Former Fussells Ironworks

MELLS CP ST 74 NW

3/232 WADBURY

Former Fussells Ironworks

II

Remains of ironworks including office building. Late C19 Remains of various walls in rubble with some brick,and office building in rubble with brick dressings and slate roof. Office block, at west end of site, 2 storeys, 2 + 3 windows:at ground floor a small square opening, two doors, a sash window opening, wide access door and a further opening. At first floor 2 small sashes and 3 tripanite sashes. All openings with brick surrounds and cambered heads. Attached left remains of 2 storey cottage, without roof. Blue brick stack left gable of main building. The north boundary of the site, built against a raised bank bounded by a wall in rubble in varying heights extending overall c. 160m and dying out to a point to the west; wall includes several offsets and two openings. Lying south of this wall considerable ruined remains of industrial buildings including a 3-arched vaulted section and a number of deep lined waterways or former rooms; to the south-east of the office building a further rubble building with low-pitched corrugated iron roof. The southern edge of the site is bounded by the stream which includes a weir and at the east end a section of the stream is lined by dressed stone revetment walls c 5m high from water level. A very significant industrial-archaeological site in a dramatic setting.

Listing NGR: ST7391448894