Stamps Engine House And Attached Stamps Approx 75 Metres South-East Of Count House At King Edward Mine

The Stamps Engine House and attached stamps were built by the Camborne School of Mines in 1902. At the time of the survey in 1988, the building had undergone slight alterations, and restoration was in progress. The structure features a weather-boarded timber frame and corrugated galvanised sheet, with roofs made of slurried slate and corrugated sheet.

The engine house is situated on higher ground than the stamps and is attached at the north-east corner, aligned parallel to it. It has a rectangular plan and is single-storeyed. The north facade is gabled and symmetrical, consisting of three bays. It includes a central porch with a door on the left side, two 6-pane windows in the front, and a mono-pitched roof. Above the front windows, there are rectangular windows with 2-pane top-hung casement openings above 6 fixed panes, and a projecting weather-boarded verge. The east side features two matching windows.

Attached to the west side of the engine house is the tall north gable wall of the stamps, which is also weather-boarded and has a central doorway located at a high level. The high west side displays symmetrical fenestration, with a 9-pane fixed window at each end of the ground floor and a similar pair of windows more closely spaced at a higher level.

Inside, the engine house walls are lined with vertical pine boarding, featuring a dado. The original 90-horsepower compound engine has been removed, but the original 5-head set of Fraser and Chalmers Californian stamps, housed in a heavy timber frame and purchased from the Paris Exhibition in 1900, remains in situ. This site is notable for having a uniquely complete set of turn-of-the-century tin mining buildings.