Vanner House to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398
VANNER HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142616
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Vanner House to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398
- Statutory Address:
- VANNER HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142616
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Vanner House to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398
- Statutory Address 1:
- VANNER HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
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:
- VANNER HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
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:
- SW 69125 39894
Details
CARN BREA CARNKIE SW 63 NE 8/127 Vanner house to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398 GV II
Vanner house to former tin mine, now derelict. c.1908, altered in 1930's. Mixed granite and kilias rubble with granite quoins and brick arches to openings; roof missing. Long rectangular building, approx. 48x12 metres, on east-west axis parallel to former stamps on south side. Single storey; 13-bay north wall with large round-headed window openings, doorways in centre and at left end. End walls now twin gabled (altered to make 2-span roof in 1930's), that at east end with one round-headed window in each gable and the other altered and damaged. North side has some similar windows, and large rectangular opening in centre, opposite engine house. Interior: concrete foundations for separators, classifiers, etc. History: built as a late addition to tin-mining operations at Wheal Basset, to house Frue Vanners for dressing ore. Now a relatively rare type of building, and the central element of a group conspicuously sited on the northern slope of Carnmenellis. Reference: Marilyn Palmer & Peter Neaverson The Basset Mines, their History and Industrial Archaeology (British Mining No.32, 1987).
Listing NGR: SW6910039800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66675
- 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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