Wolf's Shaft Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Engine house.

Wolf's Shaft Engine House

WRENN ID
turning-doorway-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Engine house
Address
Wolf's Shaft Engine House, Condurrow Road, Camborne
OS grid reference
SW 661 392
Coordinates
50.20731, -5.27895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wolf's Shaft Engine House is a derelict mine pump engine house, likely built around 1907 for Condurrow United Mines. The structure is made of uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, featuring a bob wall constructed from dressed granite blocks and window arches made of variegated brick. The chimney is finished with red engineering brick. It has a rectangular plan oriented on a north-south axis, with the bob wall on the north side and a circular chimney attached to the south-east corner. The building consists of three stages that are set back over a basement. It includes round-headed openings, such as a bob-wall window with dressed granite voussoirs and a keystone. The chimney is complete and has moulded annular cornices on both stages. Inside, there are machinery mountings made of very large dressed granite blocks. Historically, it housed an 80-inch cylinder.

Local climate

Wolf's Shaft Engine House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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