Engine Shed
ENGINE SHED, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311912
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Engine Shed
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE SHED, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311912
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engine Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE SHED, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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 SHED, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 42567 69545
Details
CALSTOCK THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT, SX 46 NW Calstock 4/62 Engine shed (formerly listed as Butts Incline Station - engine 16.5.86 shed) GV II Engine shed at the depot of the incline railway. Circa 1872; restored late C20. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gable ends. Plan: Rectangular plan engine shed. Exterior: Single storey engine shed, with two 16-pane sashes to the side and double doors at the gable end. King post strut roof. No internal machinery. The incline railway was built by the Tamar Coal, Manure and General Mercantile Company in 1860 ; it was taken over by the East Cornwall Mineral Railway in 1872. Beyond the incline station, the wagons were locomotive hauled as far as Kelly Bray, to obtain loads from mines, quaries and brickworks in the Gunnislake, Higher Dimenson, Kit Hill and Callington areas. Various sidings and depots were located along the line. The line operated in this form until about 1908, when the branch line to Bere Alston was completed by construction of the Viaduct at Calstock (q.v.). Sources: Tamar Valley Project. Barton, D.B.: Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon 1964.
Listing NGR: SX4369968622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barton, D B, A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon, (1964)
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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