Pump Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Pump engine house. 1 related planning application.

Pump Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine

WRENN ID
sleeping-wall-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Pump engine house
Address
Pump Engine House on Site of Grenville United Mine, Newton Road, Camborne, TR14 7SJ
OS grid reference
SW 660 384
Coordinates
50.20012, -5.27968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump engine house on the site of Grenville United Mine is a derelict structure, likely built in the late 19th century. It is primarily constructed of uncoursed killas rubble with granite quoins, featuring a bob wall made of granite blocks and window arches of red brick. The upper stage of the chimney is made from engineering brick, and the building is currently roofless. The structure has a rectangular plan oriented on a north-south axis, with the bob wall located to the north and a circular chimney attached at the south-west corner.

The building consists of three stages and includes round-headed windows. The chimney is a tapered cylindrical design with two stages, featuring annular brick cornices at both the junction and the top. There is a former shaft located directly in front of the bob wall. This pump engine house functioned alongside a winding engine house located approximately 50 meters to the south-west, creating an interesting group of structures on a prominent site near the road. Historically, it housed a 60-inch Marshall's pumping engine and was part of a series of mines that exploited the Great Flat Lode.

Local climate

Pump 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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