Belowda Mine Buildings Including Engine House, At Sw 969621

This is a late 19th-century group of mine buildings at Belowda tin mine, comprising an engine house, boiler house, and smithy. The engine house is constructed of granite rubble with a brick top to the chimney. It has a rectangular plan with a north-facing chimney approximately 3 metres in diameter at the base, tapered in granite rubble and finished in brick. The chimney features an inspection hole at its base. The north front of the engine house has three window openings, one on each storey, with brick jambs to the upper two. A two-storey lean-to, of later date, is attached to the left side, projecting at the rear, with a gable end and two window openings to the side. A two-storey building with gable ends and a corrugated iron roof is attached to the right side, featuring an upper door approached by granite steps and a window to the front. The rear of this building has a wide doorway to the left and a window to the right, with two blocked windows under the eaves. The rear of the engine house has a bob opening with brick jambs, and a doorway leading to a granite rubble platform. The boiler house is a small, single-storey rubble building with gable ends and a south-facing front with a doorway and a window. It formerly had a slate roof and has a lower lean-to attached to the right side with a doorway to the front and a ventilation slit in the rear wall. The smithy is a long, single-storey building of two-room plan, constructed of granite rubble with quoins and a corrugated iron roof with gable ends. The north-facing front has a central doorway with a cambered brick head, mirrored by window openings at the rear. The buildings collectively represent an important group for industrial archaeology and have landscape value.