Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Engine house.

Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine

WRENN ID
brooding-loft-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Type
Engine house
Address
Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine, Madron
OS grid reference
SW 441 348
Coordinates
50.158, -5.58368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine house at Ding Dong Mine, located at SW 442347, is a Grade II listed beam engine house dating from the mid to late 19th century. It features a dressed granite bob wall, with the rest of the structure made from granite rubble and granite dressings. The chimney has a brick upper stage and round brick arches above the main doorways. The building has a rectangular shape with a round chimney positioned at the rear right corner. The front bob wall is supported by bearing walls that once held winding machinery, although the fittings, floors, and roof have been removed.

The exterior consists of two storeys above a basement plinth. There is a tall round-headed doorway in the bob wall, along with two openings in the rear wall, including a round-headed opening on the first floor. A ground floor window is located in the left-hand wall near the front, with a doorway opposite in the right-hand wall. The chimney features an echinus-moulded brick cornice, although part of the upper stage has fallen. This engine house is recognized as one of the most notable mining landmarks from the 19th century in Cornwall.

Local climate

Engine House at SW 442347, Ding Dong Mine sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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