Shepherds United Powder House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Powder house.
Shepherds United Powder House
- WRENN ID
- high-panel-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Powder house
- Address
- Shepherds United Powder House, St. Newlyn East
- OS grid reference
- SW 816 539
- Coordinates
- 50.34446, -5.07072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shepherds United Powder House is a magazine for storing black powder, used in the Old Wheal Rose silver lead shafts. It was likely built between 1820 and 1830. The structure is made of uncoursed killas stone rubble, with brick quoins at the entrance. It features a restored Delabole stone slate roof and has a circular plan. The entrance door, located on the east side, has been renewed along with its frame. The walls are approximately 60 centimeters thick. The building underwent restoration and roof renewal in 1986-1987, with sheet plywood installed on closely spaced radial rafters. This is the only building that remains on the sett.
Local climate
Shepherds United Powder House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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