ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328985
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328985
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE, PART OF KILLIFRETH MINE, AT SW 737442 SW

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chacewater
National Grid Reference:: SW7371944287

Details

CHACEWATER SW 74 SW 4/80 Engine house, Part of Killifreth - Mine, at SW 737442 SW GV II Beam engine house ruin with attached chimney. Mid-late C19. Killas rubble with granite quoins jambstones and bonding stones. Brick arches. Round rubble chimney with brick upper stage (south side). Gable end to west. Rectangular, single-cell plan with attached round chimney to west of south wall. 3 storeys (now floorless). Bob wall to east. All openings with round arches including holes for second floor beams which were originally cantelevered over shaft. Walling intact. Roof and framed and weather boarded upper part of bob wall missing. Chimney has corbelled brick collar and cornice. Killifreth Mine and Great Wheal Busy were developing contiguously from 1865 and shafts were being sunk to greater depths. This engine house is part of the scheme.

Listing NGR: SW7371944287

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Legacy System number:: 63178
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.