Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine
ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 442347, DING DONG MINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136718
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 442347, DING DONG MINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136718
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 442347, DING DONG MINE
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:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 442347, DING DONG MINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Madron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 44133 34812
Details
MADRON SW 43 SW 6/80 Engine house at SW 442347, Ding - Dong Mine GV II Beam engine house. Circa mid-late C19. Dressed granite bob wall, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Brick upper stage to chimney and round brick arches over principal doorways. Plan: rectangular engine house with clasping round chimney to the rear right hand corner. Adjoining the front (bob) wall are bearing walls for former winding machinery. Fittings, floors and roof removed. Exterior: 2 storeys over basement plinth. Tall round-headed doorway to bob wall; 2 openings to rear wall with round-headed opening to first floor; ground floor window opening in left-hand wall near the front and doorway opposite in the right hand wall. Echinus-moulded brick cornice to chimney. Part of upper stage fallen. This engine house at Ding Dong is one of the best known of Cornwall's C19 mining landmarks.
Listing NGR: SW4413334812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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