Engine House and Chimney at Jope's Shaft
ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT JOPE'S SHAFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140479
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Chimney at Jope's Shaft
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT JOPE'S SHAFT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140479
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Chimney at Jope's Shaft
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT JOPE'S SHAFT
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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:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT JOPE'S SHAFT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cleer
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 26542 69788
Details
ST CLEER SOUTH CARADON MINE SX 26 NE 11/90 Engine house and chimney at Jope's shaft II Engine house and chimney. Circa 1864. Granite rubble with granite quoins and brick dressings. Rectangular engine house, with rear gable end to south, front gable end to north with remains of attached rectangular building. Detached chimney about 10 metres to north east, connected by an underground flue to the middle building. Engine house North gable end has wide round arch at ground floor, narrow arch above, 2 small square openings above and round arched opening in the gable apex. Left side has a window with flat granite lintel at ground floor, 2 round-arched openings at first floor and window at upper right level with flat granite lintel. Right side has doorway with flat granite lintel, round-arched window at first floor. The rear gable end is the bob wall, with round-arched window at ground floor with splayed reveal internally; upper bob opening across the whole width of the building. Trench and side walls to south east of bob wall. Interior: Engine pit at the rear gable end. Remains of rectangular building attached to west, with chimney about 3 metres from its north gable end. The chimney is circular in plan, tapered, with an inspection hole at the base. Connected by an underground flue to the middle building. Jope's Shaft was an extension of the South Caradon Mine; the shaft was sunk in 1864, and a man-engine was put in to Jope's Shaft by 1868. The mine was closed in 1885. Sources: Barton, D.B.: A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon 1964.
Listing NGR: SX2654269788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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