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
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST JUST KENIDJACK SW 33 SE 1/10044 Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
GV II
Beam engine house of former tin mine. c1859. Granite rubble, with dressed granite to bob wall. Rectangular plan of approx. 7.6 x 5.2 metres, standing to 12 metres high, with walls surviving from original boiler house of approx. 11.5 x 3 metres to north west. Square-headed openings with twin lintels of granite (to exterior) and timber (to interior). Upper section of rear wall has collapsed. NW corner stack finished in brick. A substantially complete example of a beam engine house with its original boiler house, a rare surviving example. This constitutes a significant surviving group with the former miners' dry (qv) to the north west. (Cornish Archaeological Unit, "St Just: An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District", 1992, pp. 188-92)
Listing NGR: SW3655732342
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