Engine House and Attached Chimney Approximately 50 Metres West of Trelane is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Engine house, chimney.

Engine House and Attached Chimney Approximately 50 Metres West of Trelane

WRENN ID
lapsed-corridor-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1989
Type
Engine house, chimney
OS grid reference
SX 387 738
Coordinates
50.54172, -4.27745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine house and attached chimney, located approximately 50 meters west of Trelane, dates from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed from roughly coursed slate stone with red brick window dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan and includes a circular chimney covered in ivy at the southwest corner. It stands three storeys tall, with round-headed openings on each floor on the north side, a damaged round-headed opening on the south side, a round-headed opening on the ground floor at the east end, and rectangular openings at the west end.

Inside, the structure retains a stone block for a beam engine, with part of the gearing still present. The roof is scissor-braced and consists of six bays. The site was first mentioned in 1836 as Wheal Martha, later known as the Luckett or New Consols Mine, which experienced various name changes and periods of inactivity until it was renamed New Great Consols in 1867. The mine operated until 1879, focusing on the extraction of copper, silver, tin, and a small amount of gold. It was reopened on a smaller scale in 1946 and remained operational until 1952.

Local climate

Engine House and Attached Chimney Approximately 50 Metres West of Trelane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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