Wheal Rose Engine House (At Sw717450) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Engine house.
Wheal Rose Engine House (At Sw717450)
- WRENN ID
- nether-bronze-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Wheal Rose Engine House (At Sw717450), St. Agnes
- OS grid reference
- SW 717 450
- Coordinates
- 50.26096, -5.20435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheal Rose Engine House is a disused beam engine house located at Wheal Rose Mine, dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed from granite and killas rubble, featuring granite dressings. The building has brick arches over its openings and brickwork on the upper stages of its chimneys, although it is roofless.
The structure has a rectangular plan with a round chimney at the rear left-hand corner. It stands two storeys high over a basement and retains virtually complete and unaltered elevations. The front wall has a central round-headed doorway above a basement opening. The rear gable end includes a wide cylindrical doorway, spanned by a timber lintel with a relieving arch, and a round-headed window above it. The right-hand wall features two ground floor openings and a central first floor opening, while the left-hand wall has a small doorway and a first floor window opening towards the right. The chimney is notable for its stepped collar between the stages and a similar collar at the top.
There are no surviving wooden floors, roof structure, or machinery within the building.
Local climate
Wheal Rose Engine House (At Sw717450) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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