Engine House and Attached Chimney

ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHIMNEY, WINSOR LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220770
Date first listed:
11-May-1989
List Entry Name:
Engine House and Attached Chimney
Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHIMNEY, WINSOR LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220770
Date first listed:
11-May-1989
List Entry Name:
Engine House and Attached Chimney
Statutory Address 1:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHIMNEY, WINSOR LANE

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED CHIMNEY, WINSOR LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Stokeclimsland
National Grid Reference:
SX3612171928

Details

STOKE CLIMSLAND WINDSOR LANE
SX 37 SE
8/199 Engine House and attached
- chimney (Holmbush Mine)

- II

Engine house and attached chimney. Early to mid-C19. Rougly coursed slate stone
with yellow brick dressings; slate roof with ceramic cresting to engine house, the
whole partly ivy clad (November 1987). Engine house rectangular in plan with
circular chimney, tapering to top, attached to west gable end. 2 storeys with
2 tiers of round-headed windows to sides and round-headed opening to east gable
end. Interior. Engine house retains cross beams for first floor at west end; stone
mounting for former wheel. Collar truss roof in 4 bays. Formed part of Holmbush
Mine, first referred to as a lead mine in C17 later extracting copper and tin.
Working ceased in 1954 but the mine was later reopened 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: SX3612171928

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Legacy System number:
394474
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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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