Pump Engine House to Pascoe's Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 678 393 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Engine house. 1 related planning application.

Pump Engine House to Pascoe's Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 678 393

WRENN ID
tired-obsidian-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Engine house
Address
Pump Engine House to Pascoe's Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 678 393, Carn Brea, TR16 6JY
OS grid reference
SW 678 393
Coordinates
50.20856, -5.25553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump engine house to Pascoe's shaft on the South Wheal Frances sett is a derelict structure built in 1888 for the South Frances mine. It is constructed from uncoursed granite rubble, featuring a bob wall made of large dressed granite blocks. The window arches are made of polychrome brick, and there is a brick upper stage to the chimney, which is now roofless. The building has a rectangular plan aligned on a north-south axis, with the bob wall located to the north and the chimney attached at the south-west corner.

The structure consists of three stages and includes mostly round-headed openings. Notable features include an unusually large driver's window in the bob wall, a large cylinder door in the rear wall, and tall lancet windows—three in the rear wall and six and three in the east and west sides, respectively. The tapered cylindrical chimney has brick cornices on both stages. Historically, this engine house was built to replace a former pumping system that used flat-rod connections from Marriott's shaft and contained an 80-inch cylinder powered by four, later six, Cornish boilers. This building forms a group with the winding engine house, its functional partner located to the west.

Local climate

Pump Engine House to Pascoe's Shaft on South Wheal Frances Sett at SW 678 393 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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