Former Miners Dry, Bickfords and Palmers Shafts, South Crofty Mine
FORMER MINERS DRY, BICKFORDS AND PALMERS SHAFTS, SOUTH CROFTY MINE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379216
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Miners Dry, Bickfords and Palmers Shafts, South Crofty Mine
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MINERS DRY, BICKFORDS AND PALMERS SHAFTS, SOUTH CROFTY MINE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379216
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Miners Dry, Bickfords and Palmers Shafts, South Crofty Mine
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER MINERS DRY, BICKFORDS AND PALMERS SHAFTS, SOUTH CROFTY MINE, STATION ROAD
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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:
- FORMER MINERS DRY, BICKFORDS AND PALMERS SHAFTS, SOUTH CROFTY MINE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carn Brea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 66926 41307
Details
SW 64 SE CARN BREA STATION ROAD
(West side)
501/5/10016
Former Miners' Dry, Bickford's
And Palmer's Shafts, South
Crofty Mine
GV II
Miner's dry, later cooperage, now disused. 1863. Killas rubble with granite dressings and slate roof. Two storey; 3-window range, window frames removed or blocked, with iron steps up to left-hand end, and a small porch added to centre; right-hand end with 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: reported to have softwood trusses.
HISTORY: In 1863, South Wheal Crofty was reorganised from the old workings of East Wheal Crofty by the manager, Capt. William Rutter, placing the surviving ancillary buildings in a semi-square to the N of the two shafts, Bickford's and Palmer's. New survey rooms were later added, and the miner's dry used as a cooperage, stores, and training school. A rare surviving example of a type of building which characterised the mine groups of the Cornish orefields, the date of its construction representing the apogee of Cornish mining before the advent of compressors and rock drills and the severe contraction of the industry from the 1870s.
(Buckley, J A; Robinson's Engine House and Environs: an Assessment, (Report for Cornwall Country Council), 1990)
Listing NGR: SW6692641307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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