Wheal Friendly Engine House at Sw72015115 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. Engine house. 4 related planning applications.
Wheal Friendly Engine House at Sw72015115
- WRENN ID
- heavy-step-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Wheal Friendly Engine House at Sw72015115, St. Agnes, TR5 0SR
- OS grid reference
- SW 720 511
- Coordinates
- 50.31614, -5.20388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheal Friendly Engine House, part of the Wheal Kitty Mines complex, dates to the mid to late 19th century. Constructed of killas and granite rubble with granite dressings, it is a three-storey structure with a round chimney clasping the rear left-hand corner. Brick arches support the principal openings, while wooden lintels cover the other openings, with brickwork used for the upper stage of the chimney. The front elevation features a central round-headed doorway, while the rear gable wall has a large round-headed cylinder doorway and round-headed window openings on each floor. The near-side wall has four round-headed openings and two smaller openings, while the off-side wall contains a doorway and smaller openings to each of the upper floors. The interior contains no surviving machinery. A cataract pit is present. An engine formerly used at Wheal Kitty Mine survives in the Science Museum. The engine house is virtually complete and unaltered.
Local climate
Wheal Friendly Engine House at Sw72015115 receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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