Compresor House and Chimney Opposite Technical College Site
COMPRESOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY OPPOSITE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SITE, DOLCOATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328140
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Compresor House and Chimney Opposite Technical College Site
- Statutory Address:
- COMPRESOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY OPPOSITE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SITE, DOLCOATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328140
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Compresor House and Chimney Opposite Technical College Site
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPRESOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY OPPOSITE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SITE, DOLCOATH ROAD
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:
- COMPRESOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY OPPOSITE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SITE, DOLCOATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65984 40384
Details
CAMBORNE DOLCOATH ROAD SW 64 SE (south side) Tuckingmill 5/48 Compressor house and chimney opposite Technical College site 7.4.83 GV II Compressor house and associated chimney stack, on site of New Sump Shaft of former Dolcoath Mine. Probably late C19; altered. The compressor house is of slobbered killas rubble with granite quoins and brick arches to the openings, and scantle slate roof; the chimney of uncoursed granite rubble with a short top stage of brick. The compressor house is a rectangular single cell; the symmetrical facade has a wide round-headed doorway flanked by tall round-headed windows, all with quoined jambs and keyed brick heads, and an oculus above the doorway with keyed brick surround; the side walls have 2 similar windows (boarded at time of survey, 1988). Hipped roof with cockscomb tiles on the short ridge. A low sloped extension at the back links to the west side of the chimney stack, which is of tapered cylindrical form, with a short set-back brick stage finished with a simple moulded cornice. History: New Sump Shaft was Cornwall's deepest and richest tin mine, dating from at least as early as 1815, and eventually reaching a depth of 3000 feet. Reference: J.Trounson Mining in Cornwall Vol.One (1980).
Listing NGR: SW6598440384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trounson, J, Mining in Cornwall, (1980)
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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