Buddle Floor of Dressing Plant to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett, at SW 687 401
BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160461
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-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-Sept-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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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.
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:
- BUDDLE FLOOR OF DRESSING PLANT TO WEST BASSET STAMPS ON NORTH WHEAL BASSET SETT, AT SW 687 401
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
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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