ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265075
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265075
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 434346, GREENBURROW MINE

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Madron
National Grid Reference:: SW 43448 34423

Details

MADRON SW43 SW 6/82 Engine House at SW 434346, - Greenburrow Mine 18.12.86 II Beam engine house. Circa mid-late C19. Granite ashlar bob wall, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Brick upper stage to chimney. Plan: rectangular plan with round chimney clasping the rear left hand corner. Dressed granite cylinder plinth in situ. Former pumping machinery, floors and roof removed. Square-on-plan walled enclosure round shaft. Exterior: 3 storeys over low basement. Round-headed granite arched doorway to middle of front (bob) wall; round-headed doorway with partly fallen brick arch in rear wall with window opening to each floor above; irregularly disposed openings in each side wall and evidence for former extension to left hand wall. Moulded brick cornice to tapered chimney. A major monument to the tin-mining industry, this mine went out of use in July 1877. This engine house is one of the most conspicuous landmarks in West cornwall, it lies within sight of Lanyon Quoit (AM) and serves as a landmark for fishermen. Source: Trevithick Society

Listing NGR: SW4344834423

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Legacy System number:: 426205
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.