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Latitude: 52.7329 / 52°43'58"N
Longitude: -1.5359 / 1°32'9"W
OS Eastings: 431438
OS Northings: 315133
OS Grid: SK314151
Mapcode National: GBR 6H3.NHR
Mapcode Global: WHCGM.CKWQ
Plus Code: 9C4WPFM7+5M
Entry Name: The Furnace
Listing Date: 20 December 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1074335
English Heritage Legacy ID: 187917
ID on this website: 101074335
Location: Moira, North West Leicestershire, DE12
County: Leicestershire
District: North West Leicestershire
Civil Parish: Ashby Woulds
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Donisthorpe St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
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ASHBY WOULDS MOIRA
SK 31 NW
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The Furnace
II
Blast furnace and warehouse of c1800. Red brick with some stone quoins
and keystones. Warehouse attached to left has some ground floor walling
in coursed squared rubble and plain tile roof with 2 ridge stacks.
Furnace has 3 sloping walls: 4th attached to warehouse. 3 storeys of a
pair of arches with semi-circular heads on the three sides round the
polygonal furnace and large, partly blocked, arches with inward sloping
walls in basement. All have keystones. Within right end basement arch
2 iron beams and remains of tap-hole. Warehouse of 3 storeys and
basement of 4 widows front and rear almost all blocked. 3 brickwork
ventilation panels in front top floor with 2 doors on ground with cambered
brick lintels. To rear 2 doors and window opening with cambered brick
lintels and door with stone lintel in stone section. 3 arches on right
end leading to top of furnace. Large arch in left end wall with beam at
springing level and possibly contemporary infill above and C20 below with
doorway. C20 brick buttresses below. To left of end the remains of one
arch of bridge and slope up which materials for smelting were taken to top
floor of warehouse and thence to top of furnace. Stone sections in front
and rear walls of warehouse may indicate encasing of earlier structure
concerned with the lime kilns nearby. Scheduled monument.
Listing NGR: SK3143815133
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