Pump Engine House to Wheal Peevor Mine at SW 708 442
PUMP ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL PEEVOR MINE AT SW 708 442
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pump Engine House to Wheal Peevor Mine at SW 708 442
- Statutory Address:
- PUMP ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL PEEVOR MINE AT SW 708 442
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pump Engine House to Wheal Peevor Mine at SW 708 442
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUMP ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL PEEVOR MINE AT SW 708 442
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:
- PUMP ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL PEEVOR MINE AT SW 708 442
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redruth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 70802 44211
Details
REDRUTH RADNOR SW 74 SW 6/291 Pump engine house to Wheal Peevor mine at SW 708 442 GV II Pump engine house to former tin mine, now derelict. Probably 1870's. Uncoursed granite and killas rubble with bob wall and corners of large granite blocks, window arches of brick, brich upper stage to chimney; now roofless. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, with bob wall to south, chimney attached at north-west corner. Three stages, with round-headed openings, including driver's window in bob wall, large cylinder door in rear wall. Tapered cylindrical chimney with no cornices, slightly damaged at the top. History: probably erected for reworking of mine between 1872 and 1889, when work ceased; abandoned 1918. Reference: D.B.Barton A Guide to the Mines of West Cornwall (3rd edn. 1973, p.33). Largest of a very striking group on this site.
Listing NGR: SW7080044200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barton, D B, A Guide to the Mines of West Cornwall, (1973), 33
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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