Engine House And Attached Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Engine house, chimney.
Engine House And Attached Chimney
- WRENN ID
- rooted-sill-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Engine house, chimney
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STOKE CLIMSLAND WINDSOR LANE SX 37 SE 8/199 Engine House and attached - chimney (Holmbush Mine)
- II
Engine house and attached chimney. Early to mid-C19. Rougly coursed slate stone with yellow brick dressings; slate roof with ceramic cresting to engine house, the whole partly ivy clad (November 1987). Engine house rectangular in plan with circular chimney, tapering to top, attached to west gable end. 2 storeys with 2 tiers of round-headed windows to sides and round-headed opening to east gable end. Interior. Engine house retains cross beams for first floor at west end; stone mounting for former wheel. Collar truss roof in 4 bays. Formed part of Holmbush Mine, first referred to as a lead mine in C17 later extracting copper and tin. Working ceased in 1954 but the mine was later reopened 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: SX3612171928
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