Lower Engine House (At SW698472)
LOWER ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW698472)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138036
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Engine House (At SW698472)
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW698472)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138036
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Engine House (At SW698472)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW698472)
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:
- LOWER ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW698472)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6978247271
Details
ST AGNES TYWARNHAILE MINE
SW 74 NW
7/232 Lower Engine House (at SW698472)
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GV II
Ruins of pumping beam engine house, disused. Circa early C19. Killas rubble walls,
timber lintels over the openings.
Plan: Rectangular plan engine house of a possibly unique design. This was the last
engine house to be fitted with a wooden bob (the beam of the beam engine). No
surviving machinery.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Unaltered elevations. Front (bob) gable wall has central
doorway and tall wide opening to the partly fallen gable. Rear gabled end is blind.
Right-hand (nearside) wall has doorway on the left and a central first floor opening.
Left-hand (offside) gable end wall has doorway on the right and central first floor
opening. The upper floor walls are stepped in from the floors below.
Interior has remains of original plaster.
Sources: Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish.
(Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.
Listing NGR: SW6978247271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63860
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sharpe, A, Smith, J, Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish, ()
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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