Engine House at SW70234698
ENGINE HOUSE AT SW70234698
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311884
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW70234698
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW70234698
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311884
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at SW70234698
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT SW70234698
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 SW70234698
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 70218 46935
Details
ST AGNES WHEAL ELLEN SW 74 NW 7/258 Engine house at SW70234698 - GV II
Pumping beam engine house at Wheal Ellen Mine, disused. Circa mid C19. Granite and slate killas rubble with granite dressings. Brick to upper part of chimney. Brick arches and timber lintels. Plan: Rectanglar plan engine house with round chimney clasping the rear left-hand corner. No surviving wooden floors, roof structure or machinery. Exterior: 3 storeys over basement. Unaltered elevations except that rear gable has fallen and front upper corners of the wing walls have been demolished. Front (bob) wall has central round-headed doorway. Rear formerly gable end wall has large round-headed cylinder doorway and window opening to each floor above. Right-hand (nearside) wall has 2 ground floor openings, a central round-headed window opening to the first floor and another opening slighty above and to the right of the windows. Left-hand (offside) wall has small doorway on the right and a small opening to each of the upper floors. The tapered chimney has a brick collar near the top and brick battlements over a brick cornice, at the top. Interior has no machinery. Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish. (Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.
Listing NGR: SW7021846935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sharpe, A, Smith, J, Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish, ()
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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