Former Winding Engine House to Williams Shaft, Dolcoath Mine
FORMER WINDING ENGINE HOUSE TO WILLIAMS SHAFT, DOLCOATH MINE, CARN ENTRAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311087
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Winding Engine House to Williams Shaft, Dolcoath Mine
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WINDING ENGINE HOUSE TO WILLIAMS SHAFT, DOLCOATH MINE, CARN ENTRAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311087
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Winding Engine House to Williams Shaft, Dolcoath Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WINDING ENGINE HOUSE TO WILLIAMS SHAFT, DOLCOATH MINE, CARN ENTRAL
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:
- FORMER WINDING ENGINE HOUSE TO WILLIAMS SHAFT, DOLCOATH MINE, CARN ENTRAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6614339911
Details
CAMBORNE CARN ENTRAL
SW 63 NE
8/24 Former winding engine house
to Williams Shaft, Dolcoath Mine
II
Winding engine house built for a Holman horizontal winder which traversed.
Probably c.1900; for Dolcoath Mine; now derelict and roofless. Snecked
granite with ashlar dressings. Rectangular single-cell plan on NE-SW axis.
High single storey raised on a large surface basement; the 3-bay north-
west front (facing the former shaft) is symmetrical, with a continuous
weathered offset to the basement (which carries round the whole), a large
rectangular cable aperture in the centre above this, and a large vertical-
rectangular window opening to each side. The south-west gable wall has a
round-headed doorway to the basement, with a keystone, a small window
to the right, 2 large window openings above, a weathered band to the
gable and a small window in the apex; the north-east gable wall is similar
but the basement doorway is damaged; both gables now lack their former
coping. Interior: the long walls have stumps of closely-spaced steel corbels
to former floorbeams. History: the traversing operation of the former
engine, necessary to keep the cable in line with the wheel at the shaft
head, is said to have been historically unique; and at the time of its
construction Dolcoath was one of the world's greatest tin mines.
Listing NGR: SW6614339911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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