18th century smelthouse.


The structure represents the remains of a smelt-house built at Derbyhaven by John Murrey in 1711 as a warehouse and smelting-hearth in connection with the lead-mining industry, although it seems mainly to have served as a metalworking shop. Later alterations obscured some of its earlier features and the only the south wall now survives.


It is certainly one of the few major early 18th century buildings erected specifically for an industrial purpose in the Island and was possibly one of the oldest surviving examples of its kind in Britain.