Lower Engine House (At Sw698472) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Engine house.
Lower Engine House (At Sw698472)
- WRENN ID
- narrow-mantel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST AGNES TYWARNHAILE MINE SW 74 NW 7/232 Lower Engine House (at SW698472) - GV II
Ruins of pumping beam engine house, disused. Circa early C19. Killas rubble walls, timber lintels over the openings. Plan: Rectangular plan engine house of a possibly unique design. This was the last engine house to be fitted with a wooden bob (the beam of the beam engine). No surviving machinery. Exterior: 3 storeys. Unaltered elevations. Front (bob) gable wall has central doorway and tall wide opening to the partly fallen gable. Rear gabled end is blind. Right-hand (nearside) wall has doorway on the left and a central first floor opening. Left-hand (offside) gable end wall has doorway on the right and central first floor opening. The upper floor walls are stepped in from the floors below. Interior has remains of original plaster. Sources: Source: Sharpe, Adam and Smith, John. Engine Houses in St Agnes Parish. (Cornwall Archaeological Unit survey for Carrick District Council.
Listing NGR: SW6978247271
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