Engine House At Sw691479 (Wheal Lushington)

The engine house at Wheal Lushington, dating from the early 1870s, is a pumping beam engine house that is now used as a café with living accommodation above. It features painted rubble walls and brick arches over most openings. A truncated round rubble stack is located at the rear left-hand corner, and the building has a corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends.

The structure has a rectangular plan with a round external chimney at the rear left-hand corner. Although machinery intended for pumping via an adit in the side of the hill was never installed, the building stands two storeys high over a cataract-pit basement. The original openings are preserved on all elevations. The front wall has a central round-headed doorway and a round-headed window that rises into the gable above. The right-hand wall features two round-headed windows on each floor, while the left-hand wall has a window opening spanned by a timber lintel on the ground floor to the right. The rear wall contains a round-headed doorway, which has a later extension, and a round-headed window above. The building also has 20th-century doors and windows and is part of Wheal Towan Mine. The interior was not inspected.