WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312783
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES
Statutory Address:: WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312783
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES
Statutory Address 1:: WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES

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.

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

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:: WHEAL CLIFFORD, POWDER HOUSE, PART OF THE UNITED MINES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwennap
National Grid Reference:: SW 75512 41561

Details

GWENNAP SW 74 SE 5/105 Wheal Clifford, Powder House, part - part of the United Mines GV II Gunpowder storage house. Early-mid C19. Lime-washed killas rubble with timber lintels and scantle slate roof with finial. Round single-cell plan. Single storey. Doorway to north, now boarded up, and window to north east. A remarkably intact example of this very rare building type. Sited at a distance from other structures in case of explosion.

Listing NGR: SW7551241561

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Legacy System number:: 63203
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.