FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE

FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE, FURNACE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078600
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE, FURNACE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078600
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE, FURNACE LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FARM BUILDING (FORMER CHARCOAL STORE) OF FURNACE FARM, ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF OAKDALE HOUSE, FURNACE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Oxenhall
National Grid Reference:: SO 71923 26486

Details

SO 72 NW OXENHALL FURNACE LANE (west side)

3/194 Farm building (former Charcoal Store) of Furnace Farm, about 50m 19.9.84 north-west of Oakdale House

GV II

Former charcoal store for iron furnace, now farm building. C17 or earlier, later alterations, including 1984. Roughly squared and coursed reddish stone; thin yellowish stone to top quarter or less of wall, but not buttresses. Corrugated asbestos roof on steel frame. Four-bay building. Facade to road, plain plinth, at ground level on right, high on left with slope of ground. Square- set buttresses, single offset just below eaves. First bay 5 small square holes: second 3-light mullioned window on left and above, 3 square holes, to right door-frame infilled 2-light mullion and transom window at upper level. Third and fourth bays 6 square lioles: end buttresses removed. Left return high plinth, buttresses at corners; wide centre doorway, about 2.lm high, rebate in stonework for doors, flat timber lintel. Square window to right at same level, 2 rows of 4 small square holes above. 1984 low-pitched gable oversails wall. Right return wide opening, part rebuilt in C20 brickwork. Interior gutted; evidence of upper floor at left end, with cross wall in centre of second bay. Said to be former charcoal store of Cl7 iron works: earlier use not clear, later converted to farm building. Previous roof half-hipped, tiled, removed 1984. Important remains of pre-Industrial Revolution iron works, outlier of Forest of Dean industrial area. Only known C17 charcoal store in existence. Forms group with former blowing house and Oakdale House, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7192326486

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Legacy System number:: 125731
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.