Fortescue's Shaft, North Engine House, on Site of Grenville United North Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Engine house.
Fortescue's Shaft, North Engine House, on Site of Grenville United North Mine
- WRENN ID
- broken-gateway-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Fortescue's Shaft, North Engine House, on Site of Grenville United North Mine, Camborne
- OS grid reference
- SW 667 388
- Coordinates
- 50.204, -5.26959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fortescue's Shaft, North Engine House, is a derelict pump engine house located on the site of the former Grenville United North Mine, likely built in the late 19th century. The structure is constructed from large granite rubble, with quoins and a bob wall made of granite blocks. It features window arches of yellow brick and a brick upper stage for the chimney, which is now roofless. The building has a rectangular plan oriented north-south, with the bob wall on the south side and a circular chimney attached at the north-east corner.
The engine house is a large structure with three stages above a high plinth. It includes a narrow segmental-headed driver's window in the bob wall, a large round-headed cylinder door in the rear wall, and a narrow square-headed doorway on the west side near the bob wall. Various smaller round-headed windows are present on both sides, along with some tie-plates. The tapered cylindrical chimney has an arched opening on the west side of its base, and there is no cornice at the junction with the brick stage, which is damaged at the top. This building serves as a functional partner to the winding engine house located approximately 50 meters to the south, creating an impressive group of structures. Historically, it is one of several mines that exploited the Great Flat Lode.
Local climate
Fortescue's Shaft, North Engine House, on Site of Grenville United North 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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