Mine Buildings Including Wheel Pit and Arsenic Calciner Wheal Benny
MINE BUILDINGS INCLUDING WHEEL PIT AND ARSENIC CALCINER WHEAL BENNY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140178
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mine Buildings Including Wheel Pit and Arsenic Calciner Wheal Benny
- Statutory Address:
- MINE BUILDINGS INCLUDING WHEEL PIT AND ARSENIC CALCINER WHEAL BENNY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140178
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mine Buildings Including Wheel Pit and Arsenic Calciner Wheal Benny
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINE BUILDINGS INCLUDING WHEEL PIT AND ARSENIC CALCINER WHEAL BENNY
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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:
- MINE BUILDINGS INCLUDING WHEEL PIT AND ARSENIC CALCINER WHEAL BENNY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 39752 73129
Details
CALSTOCK WHEAL BENNY SX 37 SE 1/146 Mine buildings-including wheel pit and arsenic calciner II Mine buildings at Wheal Benny, including wheel pit and arsenic calciner. Late C19. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings. Plan: Wheal Benny is on the bank of the River Tamar. The site includes wheel pit large enough to accommodate a 50 foot wheel, 4 tin buddles and a Brunton calciner with flues. The calciner is of square plan, with round-arched opening to front leading to an internal vault, with grate at the left side. The flues are to west of the calciner, above ground with arched openings. At the east end of the site is a wheel pit with rubble walls, external rubble housing for the wheel shaft ; the mine was water powered, the leat running above the mine to the south. Sources: Tamar Valley Project.
Listing NGR: SX3975273129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60894
- 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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