Engine House About 140 Metres South of Canonteign Barton
ENGINE HOUSE ABOUT 140 METRES SOUTH OF CANONTEIGN BARTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163737
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House About 140 Metres South of Canonteign Barton
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE ABOUT 140 METRES SOUTH OF CANONTEIGN BARTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163737
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House About 140 Metres South of Canonteign Barton
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE ABOUT 140 METRES SOUTH OF CANONTEIGN BARTON
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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 ABOUT 140 METRES SOUTH OF CANONTEIGN BARTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Christow
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8373283012
Details
CHRISTOW
SX 88 SW
5/73 Engine House about 140 metres
south of Canonteign Barton
GV II
Engine house at Wheal Exmouth lead and barytes mine. 1853. Stone rubble with ashlar
granite dressings. Unusually ornamental, in a classical style to match the adjacent
octagonal ventilation shaft (q.v.).
Plan: Rectangular on plan with a large doorway on the south west side, facing the
road.
Exterior: Originally 3 storeys, top storey incomplete. Grand rusticated granite
round-headed doorway on south west side with a keystone, rusticated granite quoins.
The doorway retains a timber frame with glazing bars, presumably for margin panes and
an incomplete 2-leaf arched door with plain panelling. The south east elevation,
clad in ivy, with a narrow ground floor doorway and first floor doorway with
surviving timber frame, second floor window with 6-pane timber frame. The north east
elevation has a round headed ground floor window with ashlar masonry, a keystone and
a timber frame with glazing bars ; the north west elevation has 2 ground floor
windows with segmental arches, ashlar voussoirs and 6-pane timber frames.
Wheal Exmouth, operating from the 1850s to 1880, employed 70 underground workers in
1863. The site of the mine was visible from Canonteign House (q.v.), the Exmouth
family seat built in 1828 but later screened from it by tree planting. The ornate
style was presumably employed for the sake of the view from Canonteign House.
Listing NGR: SX8373283012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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