Calciner with Attached Chimney to South of Dressing Plant at King Edward Mine is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Industrial.

Calciner with Attached Chimney to South of Dressing Plant at King Edward Mine

WRENN ID
noble-cobalt-yarrow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Industrial
Period
Victorian
OS grid reference
SW 663 388
Coordinates
50.2037, -5.27513
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The calciner, now used as a store, was built by the Camborne School of Mines in 1904 and has undergone alterations. It is constructed of uncoursed granite rubble with quoins and features a slurried slate roof and a brick chimney stack. The building has a small rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis, with the chimney attached at the west end. It is a single-storey structure with a deeply recessed window in the south wall and a hipped roof. A flue at ground level wraps around the southwest corner, leading to an arched opening on the south side of the chimney, which was under repair at the time of the survey in 1988. There is also a weatherboarded lean-to addition at the east end. This calciner is part of a uniquely complete set of turn-of-the-century tin mining buildings on the site.

Local climate

Calciner with Attached Chimney to South of Dressing Plant at King Edward Mine receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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