Cargodna Pumping House, West Wheal Owles is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1993. Engine house.

Cargodna Pumping House, West Wheal Owles

WRENN ID
plain-buttress-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1993
Type
Engine house
Address
Cargodna Pumping House, West Wheal Owles, St. Just
OS grid reference
SW 362 328
Coordinates
50.13732, -5.69209
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cargodna Pumping House, located at West Wheal Owles, is an engine house built around 1870. It features walls made of granite rubble, with dressed granite quoins and voussoirs framing the arch of the plug door. The building has a rectangular plan measuring 8.1 by 5.8 metres. Granite lintels are present over the window openings on each side, and the arched cylinder door head is constructed from three courses of header bond brick. A chimney made of granite rubble is located in the rear corner, with a brick upper section and a brick drip ring.

Local climate

Cargodna Pumping House, West Wheal Owles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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