Engine House to Daubuz Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 674 390
ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142597
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House to Daubuz Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 674 390
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142597
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House to Daubuz Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 674 390
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
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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 TO DAUBUZ SHAFT ON SOUTH WHEAL FRANCES SETT AT SW 674 390
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carn Brea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6745539059
Details
CARN BREA TRESKILLARD
SW 63 NE
8/172 Engine house to Daubuz shaft
on South Wheal Frances sett
at SW 674 390
GV II
Pumping and winding engine house to former tin mine, now derelict. 1879-81, for
South Frances Mine. Uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, bob wall of large
dressed granite blocks, window arches of brick; now roofless. Rectangular plan on
east-west axis, with bob wall to west, loadings for pumping and winding gear in
front of this, remains of boiler house attached to south side, and chimney
attached at north-east corner. Three stages, with mostly round-headed openings,
including driver's window in bob wall, damaged cylinder door in rear wall (which
is thicker than bob wall), a pair of small blocked windows above this and a
larger window in the gable, a square-headed doorway to the former boiler house
on the south side, round-headed windows on 2 levels to the right of this and a
small blocked window to the right of the upper of these. Tapered cylindrical
chimney stack of unusually large diameter (4 metres at the base), now
terminating at gable level. Very prominent double loadings extending approx.10
metres in front of bob wall, one on the main axis for the flywheel and flat-rod
connections to the pump, and a longer one parallel to it on the north side of the
flywheel recess, for the winding drum. Remains of boiler house very fragmentary.
History: the shaft, approx 60 metres to the west, was sunk at the request of the
mineral lords in a period of expansion when mining here reached the Great Flat
Lode, and named after J.C.Daubuz, a principal shareholder; the building contained
a 30-inch engine, and its application to both pumping and winding was unusual.
Reference:Marilyn Palmer & Peter Neaverson The Basset Mines, their History and
Industrial Archaeology (1987).
Listing NGR: SW6745539059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, M, Neaverson, P, British Mining in The Basset Mines their History and Industrial Archaeology, (1987)
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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