Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Engine house. 1 related planning application.
Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
- WRENN ID
- plain-chapel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House, St. Just, TR19 7QW
- OS grid reference
- SW 365 323
- Coordinates
- 50.13251, -5.68781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House is a beam engine house from a former tin mine, built around 1859. It is constructed of granite rubble, with dressed granite used for the bob wall. The building has a rectangular plan measuring approximately 7.6 by 5.2 metres and stands 12 metres high. The walls include remnants of the original boiler house, which measured about 11.5 by 3 metres, located to the northwest. The exterior features square-headed openings with twin granite lintels, while the interior has timber lintels. The upper section of the rear wall has collapsed, and the northwest corner stack is finished in brick. This structure is a largely complete example of a beam engine house, along with its original boiler house, making it a rare surviving example. It is part of a significant group with the former miners' dry located to the northwest.
Local climate
Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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