Engine House Chimney
ENGINE HOUSE CHIMNEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159622
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House Chimney
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE CHIMNEY
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159622
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House Chimney
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE CHIMNEY
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:
- ENGINE HOUSE CHIMNEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7305529370
Details
SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE WHEAL VYVYAN DISUSED MINE
8/119 Engine house chimney
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II
Mine engine house chimney. Circa early to mid C19 probably from 1827 to 1850.
Granite rubble with red brick top stage. Tall and complete chimney circular on plan
and tapered. The lower stage of the chimney is granite rubble with a rectangular
opening at the base. The red brick top stage has a moulded brick collar and cornice.
The engine house which was originally attached on the west side has been demolished.
Wheal Vyvyan was a tin and copper mine named after Sir Richard Vyvyan who owned the
land. The mine began to work in 1827. The most productive period was from 1827 to
1850 when four shafts were sunk. The mine ceased working in 1864, but in that short
period the mine was responsible for the considerable growth of the village of
Constantine from what was formerly only a small hamlet.
The chimney is unusually complete and it is conspicuously situated overlooking the
village of Constantine.
Source: Charles Henderson, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall, pp.
227.
Listing NGR: SW7305529370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall, (1937), 227
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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