Remains of Large Engine House, Holmbush Mine
REMAINS OF LARGE ENGINE HOUSE, HOLMBUSH MINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220762
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Large Engine House, Holmbush Mine
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF LARGE ENGINE HOUSE, HOLMBUSH MINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220762
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Large Engine House, Holmbush Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF LARGE ENGINE HOUSE, HOLMBUSH MINE
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:
- REMAINS OF LARGE ENGINE HOUSE, HOLMBUSH MINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stokeclimsland
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3579072017
Details
STOKE CLIMSLAND STOKE ROAD
SX 37 SE
8/193 Remains of large engine
house, Holmbush Mine
- (east group)
GV II
Engine house, remains of. Early to mid-C19. Roughly coursed slate stone with granite
dressings; now roofless. Rectangular plan aligned north-south. 2 storeys with
gable of north gable end now missing. Round-headed openings to gable ends with
2 round-headed windows to apex of south gable end; rectangular openings to sides.
Formed part of Holmbush Mine, first referred to as a lead mine in C17, later
extracting copper and tin. Working ceased in 1854 but the mine later re-opened
as part of Callington United Mines from 1888-1892. (A K Hamilton Jenkin, Mines
and Miners of Cornwall, Vol. XV, Calstock, Callington and Launceston (1976),
pp 36-8).
Listing NGR: SX3579072017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton Jenkins, A K, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (1976), 36-8
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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