Pump Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Engine house.
Pump Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pilaster-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Pump Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401, Carn Brea
- OS grid reference
- SW 687 400
- Coordinates
- 50.2152, -5.24214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump engine house for Lyle's shaft, located at SW 688 401, was built between 1879 and 1880 for Wheal Basset Mine. It is now derelict and constructed from coursed granite rubble, featuring a bob wall made of large granite blocks and brick arches over the openings. The building has a rectangular plan aligned on a north-south axis, with the bob wall on the north side and a chimney attached at the south-west corner.
The structure consists of three stages, with round-headed openings, except for the driver's window in the bob wall, which is segmental-headed. There is a very large cylinder door in the rear wall and one wide window on each stage above. Some windows are present in the side walls, but these are mostly hidden by ivy as of the last survey in 1988. The tapered cylindrical chimney, now covered in ivy, terminates at gable level.
Historically, this engine house was erected when Wheal Basset Mine acquired the southern half of the former North Basset Mine. It housed an 80-inch engine and was responsible for pumping from Grace's shaft to the west using a flat rod. This building functioned alongside the winding engine house to the west and is visually grouped with the West Basset stamps to the north.
Local climate
Pump Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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- Chimney at SW 688 400
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- Buddle Floor of Dressing Plant to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett, at SW 687 401
- Frue Vanner House to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett at SW 687 401
- Stamps Engine House to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett at SW 687 402
- Chimney at SW 689 401
- Vanner House to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398
- Stamps Engine House to Wheal Basset Mine at SW 691 398
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