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
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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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