Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
WHEAL DREA PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115110
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL DREA PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115110
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEAL DREA PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL DREA PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Just
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 36557 32342
Details
ST JUST KENIDJACK SW 33 SE 1/10044 Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
GV II
Beam engine house of former tin mine. c1859. Granite rubble, with dressed granite to bob wall. Rectangular plan of approx. 7.6 x 5.2 metres, standing to 12 metres high, with walls surviving from original boiler house of approx. 11.5 x 3 metres to north west. Square-headed openings with twin lintels of granite (to exterior) and timber (to interior). Upper section of rear wall has collapsed. NW corner stack finished in brick. A substantially complete example of a beam engine house with its original boiler house, a rare surviving example. This constitutes a significant surviving group with the former miners' dry (qv) to the north west. (Cornish Archaeological Unit, "St Just: An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District", 1992, pp. 188-92)
Listing NGR: SW3655732342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351298
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
St Just an Archaeological Survey of the Mining District, (1992), 188-192
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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