Wheal Prosper Engine House
WHEAL PROSPER ENGINE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142234
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Prosper Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL PROSPER ENGINE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142234
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Prosper Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEAL PROSPER ENGINE HOUSE
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:
- WHEAL PROSPER ENGINE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Breage
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 59373 27015
Details
SW 52 NE BREAGE RINSEY
6/183 Wheal Prosper Engine House - II
Beam engine house ruin. Circa 1860. Killas rubble with dressed granite quoins and jambstones, wooden lintels and brick upper stage to chimney. Rectangular plan with round chimney clasping the rear right (east) corner; thicker front bob wall (south west) with plug doorway; boiler doorway in rear wall. Machinery, floors, studwork to second and gable over bob wall, and roof structure removed. Originally 3 floors over basement pit. Basement plinth. Central ground floor opening to front bob wall; central opening to each floor of rear gable end; window opening to each floor of left hand (north west) wing wall and ground floor opening to right hand wing wall, plus small square openings in wing walls for removed cross beams. 2 stage tapered chimney with 2 moulded brick collars. Wheal Prosper worked from circa 1860 to 1866. There was a 30 inch pumping engine here which had "almost nothing to do, only making about two strokes in three minutes". In 1860 a 20 inch stamping and winding engine was erected; (this is possibly what this engine house contained); and 16 head of stamps were worked. These were also dressing floors here supplied with water pumped from the mine and distributed with wooden launders. This engine house, restored in 1970 by the National Trust, stands in unspoilt coastal moorland near the cliff edge. Sources : Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (vol. 4) by A K Hamilton Jenkin.
Listing NGR: SW5937327015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton Jenkins, A K, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (1976)
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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