ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144361
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144361
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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:: ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS AT SW 500372

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Towednack
National Grid Reference:: SW5006337221

Details

TOWEDNACK SW 53 NW 5/209 Engine house and associated - buildings at SW 500372 GV II Beam engine house. Datestone 1874 and initials SP. Granite rubble with granite dressings and round brick arches with granite keystones and brick hoodmoulds over the openings. Brick upper stage removed of formerly 2-stage chimney. Plan: rectangular plan engine house with thicker bob wall north and round chimney clasping the south east corner. Boiler house wall runs parallel to the right hand wall. Former pumping machinery and later winding machinery and floors and roof structure removed. Exterior: 3 storeys over basement plinth. Central doorway to dressed granite north bob wall. Rear gable wall has large ground floor doorway and window opening to each floor over. Left-hand wall has 2 ground floor windows and 1 to middle of each floor above (first floor opening blocked). Right-hand wall has blocked ground and first floor openings. The central second floor opening and the 2 other second floor openings have their original iron windows with fanlight heads. Interior: shows evidence for later inclined floor having been inserted.

Listing NGR: SW5006337221

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Legacy System number:: 70548
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.