Engine House, Boiler House and Two Chimneys East Calstock Mine

ENGINE HOUSE, BOILER HOUSE AND TWO CHIMNEYS EAST CALSTOCK MINE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140198
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Engine House, Boiler House and Two Chimneys East Calstock Mine
Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE, BOILER HOUSE AND TWO CHIMNEYS EAST CALSTOCK MINE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140198
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Engine House, Boiler House and Two Chimneys East Calstock Mine
Statutory Address 1:
ENGINE HOUSE, BOILER HOUSE AND TWO CHIMNEYS EAST CALSTOCK MINE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE, BOILER HOUSE AND TWO CHIMNEYS EAST CALSTOCK MINE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Calstock
National Grid Reference:
SX4262769658

Details

CALSTOCK EAST CALSTOCK MINE
SX 46 NW
4/97 Engine house, boiler house and
two chimneys
II
Mine buildings at East Calstock Mine, including engine house, boiler house and two
chimneys. Late C19. Slatestone rubble.
Plan: The engine house is of rectangular plan, with one chimney about 15 metres to
north and the second chimney about 20 metres to south east, with single storey
building attached. The engine house has the bob wall to south in the gable end, with
round arch and lower round-arched opening ; window openings to sides. Cylinder
bedstone in the engine house. The northern chimney is circular and tapered, with
brick cornice ; the southern chimney is circular and tapered, in rubble only, with a
single storey building attached with doorway and window openings.
In 1865 there was a 42 inch pumping engine with a 24 inch whim engine. East Calstock
Mine produced copper, and is located to the west of the line of the East Cornwall
Mineral Railway.
Sources: Tamar Valley Project. Barton, D.B.: Mines and Mineral Railways of East
Cornwall and West Devon 1964.


Listing NGR: SX4262769658

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
60843
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Barton, D B, A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon, (1964)

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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