Engine House at SW 600265, New Engine Shaft, Trewavas Mine
ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 600265, NEW ENGINE SHAFT, TREWAVAS MINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311611
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW 600265, New Engine Shaft, Trewavas Mine
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 600265, NEW ENGINE SHAFT, TREWAVAS MINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311611
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW 600265, New Engine Shaft, Trewavas Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 600265, NEW ENGINE SHAFT, TREWAVAS 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:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW 600265, NEW ENGINE SHAFT, TREWAVAS MINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Breage
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 60066 26583
Details
SW 62 NW BREAGE
7/193 Engine House at SW 600265, New Engine Shaft, Trewavas Mine
GV II
Beam engine house ruin for 45" pumping engine. Circa 1838. Granite rubble with partly dressed granite quoins, jambstones and lintels and dressed granite voussoirs to round arch of plug doorway. Rectangular plan with thicker bob wall south west with tall plug doorway from pit floor level. Machinery, floors, studwork wall and gable over bob wall and roof structure removed. Originally 3 floors over basement pit towards front. Set on a steep cliff, the shaft in front of the bob wall on the seaward side. Bob wall has tall central round-headed plug doorway to basement and ground floor. Rear wall has ground floor boiler doorway and first and second floor window openings, the gable over the upper opening fallen. Each side 'wing' wall has 2 ground floor openings widely spaced and central first floor opening, the first floor window in the right hand wall blocked. In front of the bob wall on the left hand (west) side of the shaft is a masonry slot for the former balance bob (probably added when the mine was too deep for the main beam to carry the load by itself). North west of this is a capstan plat and a little higher up the cliff a horse whim plat. Wheal Trewavas was a copper mine worked between circa 1834 and 1846. This engine house, and its associated features, is spectacularly situated about three quarters of the way up a steep cliff and is part of a particularly complete group of mining remains. Sources: Mines and Miners of Cornwall, A K Hamilton Jenkin Kenneth Brown, council member of The Trevithick Society
Listing NGR: SW6000026500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hamilton Jenkins, A K, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, (1976)
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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