Winding Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Winding engine house.

Winding Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine

WRENN ID
knotted-rubble-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Winding engine house
Address
Winding Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine, Newton Road, Camborne
OS grid reference
SW 659 384
Coordinates
50.19982, -5.28037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The winding engine house, also known as a "whim," is located on the site of the former Grenville United Mine in Troon. It is likely from the late 19th century and is currently derelict. The structure is built from slobbered killas rubble with granite quoins, featuring a bob wall made of granite blocks, window arches, and the upper stage of a chimney constructed from polychrome brick. The building has a rectangular plan oriented east-west, with the bob wall on the east side and the foundations of the former winding drum in front of it. A circular chimney is attached at the south-west corner.

This building is smaller than the nearby pump engine house and includes round-headed openings, such as a driver's window in the bob wall (though the wall beneath this has collapsed) and a small cylinder door in the rear wall. There is a vertical tie-plate at the west corner of the north side. The chimney is intact, tapered, cylindrical, and consists of two stages with a cornice. The foundations of the winding drum are partly in disrepair. This engine house functions as a partner to the pump engine house located approximately 50 meters to the north-east, creating an interesting group of structures on a prominent site near the road. It is part of a series of mines that exploited the Great Flat Lode.

Local climate

Winding Engine House on Site of Grenville United 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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