COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE

COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE, TINCROFT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328163
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE
Statutory Address:: COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE, TINCROFT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328163
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE
Statutory Address 1:: COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE, TINCROFT ROAD

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Statutory Address:: COMPRESSOR HOUSE AND CHIMNEY APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES EAST OF TINCROFT MINE MAN ENGINE, TINCROFT ROAD

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carn Brea
National Grid Reference:: SW 66910 40705

Details

CARN BREA TINCROFT ROAD SW 64 SE (north side) 5/166 Compressor house and chimney 7.4.83 approx. 45 metres east of Tincroft Mine Man Engine

GV II Compressor house and chimney to former man engine of former tin mine; now derelict. Late C19. Granite rubble with squared quoins and jambs, brick arches to openings; now roofless. Rectangular plan on east-west axis. Single storey; west front (towards shaft) has very wide round-headed doorway or machine way; south side wall has 3 round-headed windows, that in the centre larger and higher than the others, and rear has 2 similar windows, both these walls now heavily ivy- clad. Attached to north-west corner by short wall is tapered cylindrical chimney with prominent moulded brick cornice to the stone stage, top of brick stage damaged. Interior: 2 rows of large squared machine bases separated by a narrow slot for a reciprocating beam. History: although incomplete, a substantial survival of the man engine which operated from 1863 to 1894, and believed to be the only extant example not ruined. In 1870 Tincroft Mine was reported to be the richest tin mine in the world; it ceased underground operations in 1926. The item forms a group with its functional partner, the man engine house approx. 45 metres to the west (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SW6691040705

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Legacy System number:: 66722
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.