East Pool Mine Engine House

CARN BREA FORE STREET SE 64 SE (south side) 5/147 Pool 9.4.75 East Pool Mine Engine House

II* Winding engine house (or "whim") to Mitchell's shaft of former East Pool tin mine; now National Trust working museum. 1887; restored, damaged by thunderbolt 1987, repair in progress at time of survey (1988). Uncoursed killas rubble with quoins, bob wall of large dressed granite blocks, window arches of brick, cantilevered steel-frame bob platform, slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with bob wall to east, chimney attached at north-west corner, lean-to boiler house on south side, fly-wheel and winding drum in front of bob wall. Three stages, with round-headed openings including driver's window in bob wall and large cylinder window in rear wall; prominent bob-plat projected from 3rd stage; large fly-wheel and winding drum on granite mounting in front of bob wall. Tapered cylindrical chimney stack with brick upper stage. Interior: contains restored 30-inch cylinder engine, beam, etc., in working order, and 2 boilers in boiler house (not now in use). History: mine worked for copper from early C18 to 1784 as Pool Old Bal (=mine), from 1834 to 1896 producing copper and tin, and united with Wheal Agar mine in 1897 as East Pool and Agar Limited (EPAL); closed 1945. Reference: J.Trounson Mining in Cornwall VoL0ne (1980).

Listing NGR: SW6725141545