Cusvey Mines, Engine House at SW 757419 SE Part of the Consolidated Mines is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1986. Engine house.

Cusvey Mines, Engine House at SW 757419 SE Part of the Consolidated Mines

WRENN ID
sombre-minaret-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1986
Type
Engine house
Address
Cusvey Mines, Engine House at SW 757419 SE Part of the Consolidated Mines, Gwennap
OS grid reference
SW 756 419
Coordinates
50.23523, -5.14735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cusvey Mines Engine House is a ruin of a beam engine house dating from the early 19th century. It features walls made of killas rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, and voussoirs. Most of the openings have timber lintels. The building has a rectangular single-cell plan with a thicker bob wall on the northeast side. Originally, it had three floors. The bob wall, which is two floors high, includes a ground floor doorway with a segmental granite arch that has a projecting keystone. There is a smaller segmental external arch that is splayed internally to a larger round-headed rear arch. This design maximizes load-bearing capacity, as the inner arch benefits from greater support due to the mass of the return walls.

The northwest wall is fairly intact and has a ground floor window opening spanned by a large granite lintel, while other openings generally have timber lintels. The southwest wall features a large door opening spanned by a round-headed brick arch. Some walling of the gable end survives above, but the southeast wall is half-fallen. There is a detached chimney located on higher ground to the south, which is similar in design but likely slightly older than the engine house at the Consolidated Mines.

Local climate

Cusvey Mines, Engine House at SW 757419 SE Part of the Consolidated Mines receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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