Engine House at Read's Shaft Part of Great Wheal Busy
ENGINE HOUSE AT READ'S SHAFT PART OF GREAT WHEAL BUSY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140975
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at Read's Shaft Part of Great Wheal Busy
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT READ'S SHAFT PART OF GREAT WHEAL BUSY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140975
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at Read's Shaft Part of Great Wheal Busy
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT READ'S SHAFT PART OF GREAT WHEAL BUSY
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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 AT READ'S SHAFT PART OF GREAT WHEAL BUSY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacewater
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7261344627
Details
CHACEWATER
SW 74 SW
4/40 Engine house at Read's Shaft part
21.11.85 of Great Wheal Busy
GV II
Beam engine house ruin. Circa late C19. Killas rubble with granite quoins and some
granite jambstones. Brick arches or wooden lintels over openings and brisk upper
stage to round rubble chimney to north west corner. Rectangular single-cell plan with
attached chimney at corner. 3 storeys originally when floored. Walls complete except
for some loss of brickwork to chimney top and loss of framed and weather boarded wall
to second floor over bob wall (south). Bob wall has round-headed opening to ground
floor. Chimney has corbelled brick collar.
Great Wheal Busy is a very old mine, working in 1823 under the name of 'Chacewater
Mines' and 'Great Wheal Busy' from 1856. Described in 1865 as having: pumping engine,
stamping engine, winding engine and crushing engine.
Information from THE MINES OF CORNWALL by Thomas Spargo.
Listing NGR: SW7261344627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63098
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Spargo, T, Statistics and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall, (1865)
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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