STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328154
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
Statutory Address:: STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328154
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398
Statutory Address 1:: STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398

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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:: STAMPS ENGINE HOUSE TO WHEAL BASSET MINE AT SW 691 398

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carn Brea
National Grid Reference:: SW 69122 39872

Details

CARN BREA CARNKIE SW 63 NE 8/128 Stamps engine house to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398

GV II Double stamps engine house to former tin mine, now derelict. Dated 1868 on bob wall; altered. Uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, bob wall of granite blocks, window arches of brick; former 2-span roof now missing. Built on a raised terrace running east-west, overlooking dressing floor on north side. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, with bob wall to north and foundations of former flywheel below and in front of this. Two stages, with round-headed openings including 2 driver's windows in bob wall; above these windows, 2 stones with inscriptions in sunk panels: "W.B." and "1868"; side walls and rear damaged. History: built to contain 2 single-acting 30-inch beam engines mounted side by side and connected to a common flywheel, driving three 16-heads stamps, subsequently increased to 96 heads; worked for 50 years, and was then modified to act as ore hopper for re-working dumps. Prominent element of group conspicuously sited on northern slope of Carnmenellis. Reference: Palmer & Neaverson, op.cit.

Listing NGR: SW6910039800

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Legacy System number:: 66676
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Palmer, M, Neaverson, P, 'British Mining' in The Basset Mines their History and Industrial Archaeology, (1987)

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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.