Wheal Rose Engine House (At SW717450)
WHEAL ROSE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW717450)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1146321
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL ROSE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW717450)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1146321
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEAL ROSE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW717450)
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL ROSE ENGINE HOUSE (AT SW717450)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7171445024
Details
ST AGNES WHEAL ROSE
SW 74 NW
7/265 Wheal Rose Engine House
- (at SW717450)
GV II
Beam engine house at Wheal Rose Mine, disused. Circa mid-late C19. Granite and
killas rubble with granite dressings. Brick arches over the openings, brick to upper
stage of chimneys, roofless.
Plan: Rectangular plan with round chimney clasping the rear left-hand corner. No
surviving wooden floors, roof structure, or machinery.
Exterior: 2 storeys over basement. Virtually complete and unaltered elevations.
Front (bob) wall has central round-headed doorway over basement opening. Rear gable
end has wide cylinder doorway, spanned by timber lintel with relieving arch, with
round-headed window over. Right-hand (nearside) wall has 2 ground floor openings and
central first floor opening. Left-hand (offside) wall has small doorway on the right
and first floor window opening towards the right. Chimney has stepped collar between
the stages and similar collar at the top.
Interior: see plan.
Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish. (Cornwall
Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.
Listing NGR: SW7171445024
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 63893
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Sharpe, A, Smith, J, Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish, ()
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