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Latitude: 54.7262 / 54°43'34"N
Longitude: -1.872 / 1°52'19"W
OS Eastings: 408342
OS Northings: 536811
OS Grid: NZ083368
Mapcode National: GBR HFCS.JK
Mapcode Global: WHC4S.6GVN
Plus Code: 9C6WP4GH+F6
Entry Name: South Building of Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited
Listing Date: 5 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232638
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408015
ID on this website: 101232638
Location: Wolsingham, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Wolsingham
Built-Up Area: Wolsingham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Wolsingham
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WOLSINGHAM A689 (South side)
NZ 03 NE
Wolsingham
22/329 South building of
Weardale Steel
(Wolsingham) Ltd.
II
Former Wolsingham Ironworks. 1864 and later for Charles Attwood. Thin courses
of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; asbestos-covered roof.
One high storey, 2 builds of 10 and 7 windows; small low pent addition on rear
elevation. First build has round-headed windows, with slender vertical glazing
bars and overlapping panes, in chamfered alternate-block surrounds with sloping
sills. Second build to north has square-headed windows with flat stone lintels
and projecting stone sills; segmental-headed vehicle door, between fourth and
fifth windows, is partly blocked and has C20 doors inserted. Right and left
returns have renewed sliding doors. Hipped roof with drum-shaped ventilators.
Interior: queen-post roof; girder frame supports crane along length of shop.
Historical note: C; Attwood, whose first works at Tow Law were for the
manufacture of iron, was in 1862 granted patents for an improved method of
manufacturing steel; it was cheaper and more reliable than the cementation
method, and was said to have advantages over Bessemer's, which was patented in
1855.
Source: J. Robinson The Attwood Family Sunderland 1903, pp. 15-19.
Listing NGR: NZ0834236811
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