Engine House At Sw 480357

Date:
29 Sep 1999
Location:
Engine House At Sw 480357, Ludgvan, Penwith, Cornwall
Reference:
IOE01/00081/34
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

LUDGVAN SW 43 NE 4/174 Engine House at SW 480357 - II Beam engine house and associated buildings. Circa early C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings.

Plan: unusually narrow rectangular plan engine house with central doorway in the thicker (north) bob wall and round chimney at the rear. Thicker walls to about 2 thirds height possibly heightened later C19. Window openings high up in either side wall. Adjoining the right-hand side wall is a later C19 boiler house, and right of this a slightly later parallel workshop or dry. The additions are at a lower level and approached by a flight of granite steps outside the bob wall of the engine house.

C19 machinery and floors removed. C20 iron windlass in front.

Listing NGR: SW4800035700

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0423 IOE Records taken by Richard Clegg; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Richard Clegg. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Clegg, Richard

Rights Holder: Clegg, Richard

Keywords

Granite, Iron, Rubble, Georgian Beam Engine House, Victorian Industrial, Steam Engine House, Engine House, Power Generation Site, Boiler House, Steam Power Production Site, Kiln, Monument (By Form), Windlass, Animal Power Site, Mine Lifting And Winding Structure, Mining Industry Site, Workshop, Industrial Building, Steps, Transport, Pedestrian Transport Site