ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142597
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142597
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390

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:: ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carn Brea
National Grid Reference:: SW6745539059

Details

CARN BREA TRESKILLARD SW 63 NE 8/172 Engine house to Daubuz shaft on South Wheal Frances sett at SW 674 390

GV II Pumping and winding engine house to former tin mine, now derelict. 1879-81, for South Frances Mine. Uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, bob wall of large dressed granite blocks, window arches of brick; now roofless. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with bob wall to west, loadings for pumping and winding gear in front of this, remains of boiler house attached to south side, and chimney attached at north-east corner. Three stages, with mostly round-headed openings, including driver's window in bob wall, damaged cylinder door in rear wall (which is thicker than bob wall), a pair of small blocked windows above this and a larger window in the gable, a square-headed doorway to the former boiler house on the south side, round-headed windows on 2 levels to the right of this and a small blocked window to the right of the upper of these. Tapered cylindrical chimney stack of unusually large diameter (4 metres at the base), now terminating at gable level. Very prominent double loadings extending approx.10 metres in front of bob wall, one on the main axis for the flywheel and flat-rod connections to the pump, and a longer one parallel to it on the north side of the flywheel recess, for the winding drum. Remains of boiler house very fragmentary. History: the shaft, approx 60 metres to the west, was sunk at the request of the mineral lords in a period of expansion when mining here reached the Great Flat Lode, and named after J.C.Daubuz, a principal shareholder; the building contained a 30-inch engine, and its application to both pumping and winding was unusual. Reference:Marilyn Palmer & Peter Neaverson The Basset Mines, their History and Industrial Archaeology (1987).

Listing NGR: SW6745539059

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Legacy System number:: 66728
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Palmer, M, Neaverson, P, 'British Mining' in The Basset Mines their History and Industrial Archaeology, (1987)

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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.