Remains Of Large Engine House, Holmbush Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Engine house.
Remains Of Large Engine House, Holmbush Mine
- WRENN ID
- fading-plinth-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STOKE CLIMSLAND STOKE ROAD SX 37 SE 8/193 Remains of large engine house, Holmbush Mine - (east group)
GV II
Engine house, remains of. Early to mid-C19. Roughly coursed slate stone with granite dressings; now roofless. Rectangular plan aligned north-south. 2 storeys with gable of north gable end now missing. Round-headed openings to gable ends with 2 round-headed windows to apex of south gable end; rectangular openings to sides. Formed part of Holmbush Mine, first referred to as a lead mine in C17, later extracting copper and tin. Working ceased in 1854 but the mine later re-opened as part of Callington United Mines from 1888-1892. (A K Hamilton Jenkin, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, Vol. XV, Calstock, Callington and Launceston (1976), pp 36-8).
Listing NGR: SX3579072017
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