Engine House At Sw639322, Trevoole Mine, West Wheal Grenville

SW 63 NW CROWAN TREVOOLE

1/174 Engine house at SW639322, - Trevoole Mine, West Wheal Grenville

GV II

Disused beam engine house. Circa mid-late C19. Granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones and granite ashlar bob wall. Round-headed brick arches over the openings and brick upper stage to the chimney. Rectangular single-cell plan with thicker bob wall (north) and a round 2-stage chimney clasping the south-west corner. Machinery, floors, roof and framed and weatherboarded 2nd floor and gable over bob wall, removed. The original masonry including the south gable end and chimney virtually intact. 3 storeys. Round-headed openings. Large ground floor opening to middle of bob wall (north). Central opening to each floor of the opposite (south) gable end wall. Opening to the 2nd floor middle of each side wall and midfloor window below and slightly to the rear of each. The left hand (east) wall also has a 1st floor opening. The tapered 2-stage chimney is rubble to ridge level with moulded brick collar, surmounted by a tall brick upper stage with a moulded collar cornice. Last fitted with a 70" pumping engine. Now a picturesque ivy-clad ruin but still an unusually complete engine house. Sources: D.B. Barton.

Listing NGR: SW6400137209