Engine House and Chimney at Druid Copper Mine
ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT DRUID COPPER MINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206269
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Chimney at Druid Copper Mine
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT DRUID COPPER MINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206269
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Chimney at Druid Copper Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY AT DRUID COPPER MINE
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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 AND CHIMNEY AT DRUID COPPER MINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashburton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7450671592
Details
ASHBURTON
SX77SW DRUID
849-1/1/232 Engine House and chimney at Druid
10/05/73 Copper Mine
(Formerly Listed as:
DRUID
Druid's Mine, Chimney and Engine
house)
II
Ruined engine house and chimney. Probably mid C19. Stone
rubble; chimney has a red-brick top. Engine-house roof
removed. Engine-house consists of a single chamber, roughly
square in plan. About 8.5m to E is the circular chimney. The
mineshaft lies immediately W of the engine-house and to the N
of this is a series of below-ground chambers. The engine-house
is a tall building, probably 2-storeyed and with an
underground chamber originally. Most of the walls survive,
although some masonry has collapsed at the top. The E side has
a tall round-arched doorway and there are similar, smaller
openings on the S and W sides. The S side seems to have been
decorated with pilaster-strips. On the N side is a tall narrow
opening, presumably for a piece of machinery. The chimney is
almost complete. At the top of the stone shaft is a cornice
composed of projecting brick courses, and above that a short
brick shaft with round-arched panels on its sides. The owner
says the mine ceased working in 1888.
(Harris H: Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor: Newton Abbot:
1972-: 185; 1990-: G E WINDEATT LETTER).
Listing NGR: SX7450671592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, H, Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, (1972), 185
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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