Portreath Incline (Raised Lower Section Only)
PORTREATH INCLINE (RAISED LOWER SECTION ONLY)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142580
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Portreath Incline (Raised Lower Section Only)
- Statutory Address:
- PORTREATH INCLINE (RAISED LOWER SECTION ONLY)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142580
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Portreath Incline (Raised Lower Section Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTREATH INCLINE (RAISED LOWER SECTION ONLY)
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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:
- PORTREATH INCLINE (RAISED LOWER SECTION ONLY)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portreath
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65716 45180
Details
PORTREATH SW 64 NE 1/228 Portreath Incline (raised lower section only)
GV II Part of tramroad incline. 1809, forming the final descent of a tramroad running from Carn Brea mining area to Portreath Harbour. Retaining walls of coursed granite and uncoursed killas rubble with granite dressings. North-south axis approx. 200 metres long, crossing a public road by a semicircular bridge which has granite voussoirs, shallow battered buttresses, a simple band and a parapet with brick coping, and slightly constricted near the bottom where it crosses a stream by a smaller but similar bridge. History: one of the few surviving built structures of the horse-drawn tramway by which the mine engines were supplied with fuel before the introduction of steam-powered locomotives; a prominent feature of the landscape in Portreath. Reference: Michael Tangye Portreath (1968).
Listing NGR: SW6571645180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tangye, M, Portreath, (1968)
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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