Engine House, Boiler House And Two Chimneys East Calstock Mine

CALSTOCK EAST CALSTOCK MINE SX 46 NW 4/97 Engine house, boiler house and two chimneys II Mine buildings at East Calstock Mine, including engine house, boiler house and two chimneys. Late C19. Slatestone rubble. Plan: The engine house is of rectangular plan, with one chimney about 15 metres to north and the second chimney about 20 metres to south east, with single storey building attached. The engine house has the bob wall to south in the gable end, with round arch and lower round-arched opening ; window openings to sides. Cylinder bedstone in the engine house. The northern chimney is circular and tapered, with brick cornice ; the southern chimney is circular and tapered, in rubble only, with a single storey building attached with doorway and window openings. In 1865 there was a 42 inch pumping engine with a 24 inch whim engine. East Calstock Mine produced copper, and is located to the west of the line of the East Cornwall Mineral Railway. Sources: Tamar Valley Project. Barton, D.B.: Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon 1964.

Listing NGR: SX4262769658