DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142251
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL
Statutory Address:: DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142251
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL
Statutory Address 1:: DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DETACHED CHIMNEY AT SW6232295, WEST WHEAL METAL

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 62291 29509

Details

SW 62 NW BREAGE

7/29 Detached chimney at SW6232295, West Wheal Metal

GV II

Detached chimney serving beam engine house on lower ground. 1881. Killas rubble with some granite rubble to lower stage, polychrome brick to upper stage. Round-on-plan 2 stage tapered chimney with echinus mould to brick collar surmounted by tapered brick shaft with polychome banding and diaper work. This chimney has possibly unique decoration to the brickwork of the chimney and the contemporary engine house survives to the north west (see separate item: Engine house at SW 623295 NW, West Sheal Metal qv). Source of date: Kenneth Brown, council member of the Trevithick Society.

Listing NGR: SW6229129509

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Legacy System number:: 65728
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.