Engine House And Associated Ruins At Sw572314, Tindene Mine

SW 53 SE BREAGE TRESCOWE

3/86 Engine house and associated ruins at SW572314, Tindene Mine

GV II

Disused beam engine house and associated remains. Circa 1887.Granite ashlar bob wall, otherwise granite and elvan rubble walls with granite dressings, round-headed brick arched openings. Rectangular on plan, thicker bob wall at north side and round-on-plan chimney clasping the south-west corner. Bearing wall adjoins the north east corner and a rectangular boiler house lies at a short distance to the south east. Floor, roof and machinery removed. 3 storeys over basement. The north bob wall has central round-headed ground floor opening with granite voussoirs. The weatherboarding to the 2nd floor and the gable over, are missng. The opposite (south) gable end wall has large central ground floor opening and opening to each floor over. The side walls have openings to each floor, one to the middle of the 1st floor, the other openings regularly disposed at left or right. All openings spanned by round-headed brick arches except the ground floor opening left of the west wall, which has a timber lintel. The tapered rubble chimney has a brick upper stage. The whim-wheel bearing walls, in front of the left hand side of the bob wall overlooking the shaft, have a series of dressed granite blocks with sockets and drill holes for iron reinforcing rods. Some of these rods are still in situ. On the opposite side of the shaft is a triangular depression. The boiler house is of red killas with brick dressings. Round-headed opening at the north end and remains of openings in the east and south walls. Worked unsuccessfully in 1887-1892. Erected for a third hand beam pumping engine with a 60-inch cylinder originally built by Perran Foundry 35 years earlier, in 1852. The engine was moved, and recylindered to 65 inch, to Sara's Shaft, Wheal Kitty, St Agnes in 1911. This engine house is in a beautiful wooded setting and retains much evidence of die associated machinery. Source: Kenneth Brown, council member of the Trevithick Society.

Listing NGR: SW5723231457