Butterknowle Coke Ovens, Breckon Hill (Butterknowle)
Three back to back beehive coke ovens survive from a once larger bank lying in the base of a disused quarry at Butterfield. The bank is of local stone, with brick-lined ovens, and appear to be typical top loaders with a flue system. Each ven is 11 feet in diameter with top centre hole, back flue, and additional rather larger side flue. Further north there is a substantial stone retaining wall, and north of that a stone wall with a longitudinal room of bricks laid along the top. This could possibly be a flue system to a remote chimney, required because the site is in a narrow valley. There is firebrick rubble at various points for some hundred metres south of the ovens. (4)
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