Description

WORTHEN C.P. -
SJ 30 SE

6/96 Former Lead Smelting
- Works approx. 60m
north-east of The
Smelt House

GV II

The Smelt House is shown on O.S. map as Lower House.
Lead smelting works, now disused. Late-C19. Roughly coursed limestone
rubble with red brick dressings; graded slate roof. 2 levels; 2 segmental-
headed openings to lower left with tall rectangular opening to left
of centre; segmental-headed doorway to centre with similar but mutilated
window opening to right; wide entrance to far right heightened by removal
of original arch. Gabled wooden louvre to left of centre with red
brick ridge stack immediately to right. Left gable end has wide segmental-
headed entrance flanked by tall segmental-headed windows. Interior:
divided into 2 parts with central passage by full-height brick and
rubblestone cross walls. Rubblestone wall has round-headed arches
on 2 levels, that to lower level flanked by rectangular openings with
wooden lintels; similar round-headed arch to upper level of brick wall.
King-post roof and original brick floor to left of rubblestone cross
wall. No equipment remains. The Smelt House is not included in this
list.

Listing NGR: SJ3734803055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594628

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)