BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160461
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401
Statutory Address:: BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160461
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401
Statutory Address 1:: BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401

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Location

Statutory Address:: BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carn Brea
National Grid Reference:: SW 68802 40192

Details

CARN BREA CARNKIE SW 64 SE 5/138 Buddle floor of dressing plant to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset sett, at SW 687 401

GV II Buddle floor at tin ore dressing plant of former West Basset Mine; now derelict. 1874-5. Concrete floor channels and buddles, uncoursed rubble boundary walls. Large rectangular floor enclosed by Vanner house on north-west side and dilapidated rubble walls on the other sides; the floor has remains of 16 buddles - shallow circular pits in which crushed tinstone mixed with water was deposited and separated: 2 pairs of large convex buddles near the Vanner wall, each approx. 6 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres deep, with a raised conical centre on which the slurry was deposited; 2 rows of 5 approx. 4.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres deep, mostly concave buddles in which the slurry was deposited round the perimeter (both types formerly furnished with rotating sweeps); and 2 small dumb buddles close to the Vanner wall. History: constructed when West Basset Mine took over northern half of former North Basset Mine. Principal element of site which is probably now unique in Cornwall, Reference: Palmer and Neaverson op.cit., pp.59-68.

Listing NGR: SW6870040100

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Legacy System number:: 66686
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Palmer, M, Neaverson, P, 'British Mining' in The Basset Mines their History and Industrial Archaeology, (1987), 59-68

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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.