Engine House Opposite British Bakeries is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Engine house. 1 related planning application.

Engine House Opposite British Bakeries

WRENN ID
north-gravel-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1983
Type
Engine house
Address
Engine House Opposite British Bakeries, Dolcoath Road, Camborne, TR14 8RA
OS grid reference
SW 660 404
Coordinates
50.21744, -5.28021
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine house opposite British Bakeries on Dolcoath Road is a derelict mine engine house with an associated boiler house, likely built in the late 19th century. It is constructed from uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, featuring a bob wall made of dressed granite blocks and window arches of brick; the building is currently roofless. The structure has a rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis, with the bob wall located to the east and the boiler house attached to the north side, which no longer has a chimney. The engine house consists of three stages with round-headed openings. The single-storey boiler house, which is attached at right angles, has a segmental-headed doorway and three round-headed window openings. The history of the building is not well-documented, but it is presumed to have been part of Dolcoath Mine.

Local climate

Engine House Opposite British Bakeries 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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