ENGINE HOUSE AT SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312370
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312370
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE AT SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)

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 SW699492 (CHARLOTTE UNITED)

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Agnes
National Grid Reference:: SW 70134 49043

Details

ST AGNES CHAPEL FORTH SW 74 NW 7/137 Engine house at SW699492 - (Charlotte United) GV II

Pumping beam engine house for copper mine. Circa 1859. Killas rubble walls. Roofless. Plan: Rectangular-on-plan engine house with front (bob) wall and right-hand wall only surviving. Opposite the shaft in front of the engine house is a pair of parallel walls for former balance bob. No machinery. Exterior: Bob wall has round-arched plug doorway and small opening below. Other taller wall has doorway, on the left,and 2 small openings, all spanned by timber lintels. Sources: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes parish. (Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council. Important landmark in an unspoiled coastal valley.

Listing NGR: SW7013449043

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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.