ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312176
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312176
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW691479 (WHEAL LUSHINGTON)

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 69155 47942

Details

ST AGNES PORTHTOWAN SW 74 NW 7/191 Engine house at SW691479 (Wheal - Lushington) GV II

Pumping beam engine house, now used as a cafe with living accommodation above. Circa early 1870s. Painted rubble walls. Brick arches over most of the openings. Round rubble stack (truncated) clasping rear left-hand corner. Corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. Plan: Rectangular plan engine house with round external chimney clasping rear left- hand corner. Machinery intended for pumping (via adit in side of hill) never installed. Exterior: 2 storeys over cataract-pit basement. Original openings to all elevations. Front (bob) wall has central round-headed doorway and round-headed window rising into gable above. Right-hand (nearside) wall has 2 round-headed windows to each floor. Left-hand (off-side) wall has window opening spanned by timber lintel ground floor right. Rear wall has round-headed doorway (with a later extension) and round-headed window above. C20 doors and windows. Part of Wheal Towan Mine. Interior not inspected. Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish. (Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.

Listing NGR: SW6910047900

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Sharpe, A, Smith, J, Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.