Turnavore Engine House (At SW71785134)
TURNAVORE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW71785134)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141491
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Turnavore Engine House (At SW71785134)
- Statutory Address:
- TURNAVORE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW71785134)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141491
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Turnavore Engine House (At SW71785134)
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURNAVORE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW71785134)
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:
- TURNAVORE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW71785134)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 71789 51349
Details
ST AGNES TURNAVORE MINE SW 75 SW 4/229 Turnavore Engine House - (at SW71785134) GV II
Pumping beam engine house. Circa late C19. Killas rubble with granite and brick dressings. Brick to upper part of chimney. Corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. Plan: Rectangular plan engine house with round chimney clasping the rear left-hand corner. Exterior: 3 storeys. Unaltered elevations except that some openings have been blocked. Round-arched front and rear doorways; pointed-arched principal window openings. Front (bob) wall has central doorway. Weather- boarding to second floor and gable. Rear wall has wide central cylinder doorway (within later lean-to) and large central window to each floor above. Right-hand (nearside) wall has doorway on the left blocked openings to first floor and large window to second floor. Left-hand (offside) wall has large window on the right and another large window to middle of first floor. The large windows have old 6-pane casements and the tympana of their pointed arches are weather-boarded. Interior not inspected. This engine house was last reworked in 1941 and is one of the few engine houses still roofed in the county. Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish. (Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.
Listing NGR: SW7178951349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63857
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sharpe, A, Smith, J, Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish, ()
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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