Skip Shaft Headframe, Geevor Mine (Levant Section) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 2011. Headframe.

Skip Shaft Headframe, Geevor Mine (Levant Section)

WRENN ID
third-jamb-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 2011
Type
Headframe
Address
Skip Shaft Headframe, Geevor Mine (Levant Section), St Just, St. Just
OS grid reference
SW 368 345
Coordinates
50.15222, -5.68549
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The headframe over Skip Shaft at Levant Mine is a small timber structure built by Geevor Mine in the 1960s. It is linked to an electric winding engine located in a nearby concrete building. The headframe is designed as a wooden tower positioned directly over the winding shaft and is supported by two extended legs known as boomstays. The entire structure is reinforced with bracing and triangulation for added strength and is mounted on elongated bearers that are bolted to a leveled platform around the shaft opening. Uniquely, the headframe is clad in plywood sheeting, as the shaft was later used as part of the Geevor underground ventilation control system. The winding wheel, cage, and shaft furniture are all still present.

Local climate

Skip Shaft Headframe, Geevor Mine (Levant Section) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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