Old Quay House, Including Garden Wall To South And West

Old Quay House, together with its garden wall to the south and west, was originally built around 1854 as an office and engine shed for the Redruth and Chasewater Railway. The building is constructed of slate stone with granite quoins and jambstones, and has roofs covered with asbestos slates. The office section has hipped wings to the rear, while the engine shed is linked to the most northerly wing and has a gabled end. The southern wing has brick chimneys. The building’s original layout consisted of two rooms on each level, plus an engine shed to the west.

The east-facing front of the office is symmetrical, with a single storey and two windows. It features original hornless 12-pane sashes and a central doorway with an overlight, all set within cambered brick arches. The south side has two canted bay windows with cornices, also with 12-pane sashes and fixed sidelights. A further original 12-pane sash is located at the rear of the south wing. The engine shed has a round-headed doorway to the west, constructed with rock-faced granite voussoirs, now containing a 20th-century window above a sliding wooden door.

Inside, most of the building has been remodelled, except for the offices, which retain original doors and original queen strut roof structures. The coped rubble garden wall has granite quoins, and incorporates reused railway sleeper blocks within two courses of dressed granite.

The Redruth and Chasewater Railway operated from 1824 to 1915, transporting mineral ore from the mining area to Devoran. Horse-drawn transport was replaced with steam locomotives in 1854.