ENGINE HOUSE AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140974
Date first listed:: 03-May-1967
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140974
Date first listed:: 03-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 AT APPROX 50M WEST OF WHEAL BUSH FARMHOUSE,KILLIFRETH MINE.

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chacewater
National Grid Reference:: SW7363943572

Details

CHACEWATER SW 74 SW 4/39 Engine house at approx 50m west of Wheal Bush Farmhouse,Killifreth Mine. 30.5.67 (Formerly listed as part of two engine houses at New Shaft, Killifreth Mine) GV II Beam engine house ruin. Circa mid-late C19. Mostly killas rubble with granite quoins, jambstones and bonding stones and mostly dressed coursed granite facing to bob (south east) wall. Round 2-stage chimney to north corner. Round brick arches over openings and brick upper stage to chimney. Originally with gable ended roof; now roofless and floorless. Rectangular single-cell plan with thicker bob wall to south east and round chimney adjoining north corner. Originally 3 storeys. Walls virtually intact except for what was framed and weather-boarded wall and gable end over bob wall. First and second floor of north west side retain outer frames of original windows. Brick collar divides chimney stages. This engine house, probably for operating a whim, is part of Unity Wood and Killifreth Mines, re-opened in 1865.

Listing NGR: SW7363943572

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Legacy System number:: 63097
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.