Levant Engine Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1979. Engine house. 3 related planning applications.
Levant Engine Houses
- WRENN ID
- strange-facade-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1979
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Levant Engine Houses, St. Just, TR19 7SX
- OS grid reference
- SW 368 345
- Coordinates
- 50.15204, -5.68569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Levant Engine Houses, dated 1840, are a pair of granite buildings dramatically situated on the edge of a 200-foot cliff. They served as engine houses for a former tin and copper mine, incorporating extensive galleries, including submarine works.
The hoist engine house has a hipped roof of Delabole slate, with a stunted circular stack at one end, and is two storeys higher than the pump engine house. The pump engine house is roofless and has one side open on the second floor; it may incorporate older fabric. The hoist engine house has two doorways and a sash window on the first floor. The pump engine house has two doors, one arched, and various smaller openings, including an arched opening on the first floor.
The peak of copper production occurred around 1900. The site was the location of Cornwall's worst mining disaster in 1919, when a broken section in the Main Engine resulted in the deaths of 31 miners and injuries to many others. The mine closed in 1930. The hoist engine house preserves the oldest existing Cornish engine, dating to around 1840. This engine initially hoisted men, and was replaced in 1856 by Mackay, then again in 1888 by a horizontal 18" and 30" compound engine. The site is now owned by the National Trust.
Local climate
Levant Engine Houses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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