Winding Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Winding engine house.
Winding Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401
- WRENN ID
- calm-roof-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Winding engine house
- Address
- Winding Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401, Carn Brea
- OS grid reference
- SW 687 400
- Coordinates
- 50.21514, -5.24259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The winding engine house, also known as a "whim," was built in 1880 for the Wheal Basset Mine and is now derelict. It served a former tin mine shaft and is constructed from uncoursed rubble with granite quoins and a bob wall made of granite blocks. The building features brick arches over its openings and is currently roofless. It has a rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis, with the bob wall located to the east. The structure has three stages and includes round-headed openings, such as a driver's window in the bob wall and one window in each stage of the rear wall.
Historically, this engine house was erected when Wheal Basset Mine took over the southern half of the former North Basset Mine. It also operated by winding from Grace's shaft to the west using ropes along the ground. The engine house ceased functioning as a winder in 1889 but continued to be used for driving a capstan. It is functionally related to the pump house located to the east and is visually grouped with the West Basset stamps to the north.
Local climate
Winding Engine House to Lyle's Shaft at SW 688 401 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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- Frue Vanner House to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett at SW 687 401
- Stamps Engine House to West Basset Stamps on North Wheal Basset Sett at SW 687 402
- Chimney at SW 689 401
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