Consolidated Mines, Engine House
CONSOLIDATED MINES, ENGINE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136409
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Consolidated Mines, Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- CONSOLIDATED MINES, ENGINE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136409
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Consolidated Mines, Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSOLIDATED MINES, ENGINE HOUSE
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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:
- CONSOLIDATED MINES, ENGINE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gwennap
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7455242092
Details
GWENNAP
SW 74 SW
4/94 Consolidated Mines, Engine House
21.11.85
GV II
Beam engine house ruin. Circa early C19. Killas rubble with granite voussoirs, some
jambstones, and lintel to ground floor, east, otherwise wooden lintels and wooden
bearing pads for floors. Rectangular plan with thicker bob wall to north, surviving
to full 2 floor height, formerly timber studded gable over. Originally with 3
floors. South wall partly built into bank is mostly fallen. West wall ½ fallen.
East wall survives at north end to full 3 floor height, with 1 window to ground
floor, right and 2 windows to first floor (left window blocked).
Bob wall has arched ground floor opening with dressed granite jambstones and
voussoirs. Designed for load bearing, outer half of doorway is narrower with
segmental arch and projecting keystone. Inner half of doorway, also with abutment,
has complete round-headed arch. (Compare east engine house of Cusvey Mine qv).
Timber floor bearing pads over.
Detached chimney to south at higher level, (separate item).
Part of the Consols Mine which was Cornwall's most productive mine in the early C19.
From 1823 to 1825 the Consolidated Mines produced 12½% of the total copper of Great
Britain, and 15-25% of the Cornish total. Extract from History of Gwennap by C.C.
James.
Listing NGR: SW7455242092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
James, C C, A History of the Parish of Gwennap in Cornwall, ()
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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