Levant Engine Houses
LEVANT ENGINE HOUSES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143268
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Levant Engine Houses
- Statutory Address:
- LEVANT ENGINE HOUSES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143268
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Levant Engine Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEVANT ENGINE HOUSES
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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:
- LEVANT ENGINE HOUSES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Just
- National Grid Reference:
- SW3681634505
Details
SW 33 SE,
1/156
LEVANT ZAWN,
Levant Engine Houses
II
1840. Two granite buildings, one with hipped Delabole slate roof being the hoist
engine half with stunted circular stack at one end and is two storeys higher: the
other being the pump engine house, three storeys, roofless and one side open on 2nd
floor and (the latter probably incorporates older fabric). Former tin and copper
mine engine houses dramatically sited on edge of 200ft cliff. Extensive
galleries including submarine works. The hoist engine house has two doorways and
a 1st-floor sash window. The pump engine house has two doors, one arched, and various
small openings, one on the 1st floor arched.
Peak of copper production was 1900.
Scene of Cornwall's worst mining disaster in 1919 when 31 miners were killed and many
others injured as a result of a broken section in the Main Engine which was carrying the men up the shaft. Closed 1930. The oldest Cornish existing engine is preserved in the
hoist engine house (c.1840). It was the main engine for hoisting men, 1856 by Mackay,
replaced 1888 by horizontal 18" and 30" compound engine. National Trust property.
Listing NGR: SW3681634505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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