HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE

HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE, LOWER PENGEGON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142665
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE, LOWER PENGEGON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142665
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE, LOWER PENGEGON ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HARRIET SHAFT ENGINE HOUSE, LOWER PENGEGON ROAD

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Camborne
National Grid Reference:: SW 65797 40103

Details

CAMBORNE LOWER PENGEGON ROAD SW 64 SE (west side, off) 5/59 Harriet Shaft Engine House II

Mine pump engine house, now derelict. Probably late C19, for Dolcoath Mine. Uncoursed rubble with granite quoins, bob wall of dressed granite blocks, window arches of brick; now roofless. Rectangular plan on north- west/south-east axis, with bob wall to north and circular chimney attached at south-west corner. Three stages on a plinth; round-headed openings including large cylinder door in rear wall beside chimney; slightly tapered chimney with moulded cornice, former brick upper stage missing. Former shaft immediately in front of bob wall. Interior not inspected. History: formerly housed 65" cylinder; one of the few remaining monuments of the Dolcoath Mine, once the most productive tin mine in the world.

Listing NGR: SW6579740103

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Legacy System number:: 66605
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.