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Blowing house on Down Ridge is a tin-smelting site located in Devon, dating to the medieval and early modern period. The blowing house represents an important stage in the processing of tin ore, where bellows-driven furnaces were used to smelt tin extracted from local sources. The site reflects Devon's historical significance as a tin-producing region, with such installations forming part of the broader tin-working landscape that characterised parts of south-western England from the medieval period onwards. The surviving remains document the industrial archaeology of non-ferrous metal production in this area.
Blowing house on Down Ridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002600. View the official record →
Blowing house on Down Ridge is a tin-smelting site located in Devon, dating to the medieval and early modern period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002600.
Blowing house on Down Ridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002600.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hillson's House cairn, Stalldown (9.6 km), Cairn west of Stalldown (9.7 km), Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Blowing house on Down Ridge's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Blowing house on Down Ridge stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.