Buildings at Wheal St Vincent
BUILDINGS AT WHEAL ST VINCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Buildings at Wheal St Vincent
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDINGS AT WHEAL ST VINCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Buildings at Wheal St Vincent
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDINGS AT WHEAL ST VINCENT
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:
- BUILDINGS AT WHEAL ST VINCENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Callington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 38509 69647
Details
CALLINGTON SX 36 NE Buildings at Wheal St Vincent 8/252
II*
GV
Silver/Lead smelting works. Early/Mid C19. Killas rubble with red-brick and granite dressing and rag slate roofs. Three buildings in line built on different levels on slope but all inter-connected. The road (west elevation) at the top of the slope has two semi-circular headed openings partly blocked one above another and Smaller one in outshot to loft. The south side of this small square block is a narrow arched window. The second section has two later square-headed openings when upper floor inserted: also original round-headed one. Two raking buttresses. Small arched opening to rear. Bottom section is lower again and has three raking buttresses and two segmental headed openings, segmental headed doorway in bottom wall. All roof structures appear original with king post trusses. The top building incorporates a network of kiln-type flues. Use of buildings at present unknown but presumably the slope was used for a gravity-fed process of silver and lead smelting. This building is unusually complete and well finished. Wheal St Vincent had several periods of working between 1810 and 1848 and considerable quantities of silver were smelted. Source A.K Hamilton-Jenkin, Mines and Miners of Cornwall Volume XV Page 27.
Listing NGR: SX3850969647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61461
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton Jenkins, A K, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (1976), 27
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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