WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329194
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717
Statutory Address:: WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329194
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717
Statutory Address 1:: WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717

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Location

Statutory Address:: WEST ROSEDOWN MINE PAIR OF ENGINE HOUSES AND 3 CHIMNEYS AT SX 277 717

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Linkinhorne
National Grid Reference:: SX2775071677

Details

LINKINHORNE SX 27 SE 6/31 West Rosedown Mine pair of engine - houses and 3 chimneys at SX 277 717 GV II Pair of engine houses and 3 chimneys. Circa 1870. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings. Plan: Engine house to north with chimney to south west; engine house to south with chimney to south west. One further chimney about midway between the two engine houses. Northern engine house in slatestone rubble on granite plinth with granite quoins; gable end to front and rear with a chimney about 20 metres from the rear gable end. The chimney is circular, tapered, with the remains of a further rectangular building attached to east. The front a gable end has a round-arched bob opening with granite voussoirs. Right side has window opening with granite jambs and voussoirs. Rear gable end has wide round arch at ground floor with granite voussoirs and 2 window openings above the flat granite lintels. Southern engine house has gable end front to north; bob opening with flat timber lintel; to the front 3 granite walls forming 2 trenches. The rear gable end has window opening at all 3 levels. Left side has door at ground floor and window above. Right side also has door, wall partially collapsed. The chimney is about 10 metres to south west, circular, tapered, with brick top. West Rosedown Mine was owned and worked by the Marke Valley adventurers from 1858 onwards. This sett had originally been worked as part of the old Wheal Jenkin in the 1830s by Cornwall Great United. At West Rosedown hopes were entertained of finding tin in depth and a 60 inch engine was erected in 1862 to sink the mine. Production declined and in 1883 it was decided to sell off all the underground and surface machinery on the old copper part of the sett. Sources: Barton, D.B.: A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon 1964.

Listing NGR: SX2775071677

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Sources

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Barton, D B , A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon, (1964)

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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.