Wheal Anna Maria Houses

A row of three attached houses was built around 1870, likely as accommodation for a mine captain at the Devon Great Consols Mine. The houses are now used as separate dwellings. The construction is of rubble, with the front faces slate-hung, and the rear of the central house rendered. The roofs are slate, featuring a ridge stack on the house to the right, rebuilt in brick, and gable end stacks on the others, of which some have been removed.

The houses are arranged with the larger property on the right, and two smaller houses on the left, demonstrating a double-depth plan. The larger house has a centrally positioned porch to its right side. Rooms to the right of this house are heated by a gable end stack, while rooms to the left are heated by a ridge stack. The two-storey house to the right has four windows, with 16-pane sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a 16-pane sash and a 12-pane sash to the left, the porch with a half-glazed door and sidelights featuring margin glazing, plain pilasters, a frieze with rosettes and triglyphs, a guttae, and a cornice, and a 16-pane sash to the right. The right gable end is slate-hung.

The two houses to the left are also two-storey structures with a lower roofline than the larger house. The house furthest to the left has two windows; the first floor has 16-pane sashes, while the ground floor has a 20th-century plate glass window to the left and a 16-pane sash to the right. It has a central porch with a 9-pane light and a side door, featuring a plain frieze and cornice. The central house has had its porch removed, revealing a 20th-century French window and a four-panelled door with an overlight, along with a plate glass window on the first floor.

The rear range of the three houses has a two-span roof and is slate-hung. A 20-pane light serves the stairwell on the first floor, and a 6-pane light overlooks the ground floor on the left. A single-storey rear wing, featuring a small gabled porch with a 10-pane sidelight and inner door, extends from the end house on the right, and its wall continues to form a small yard.

The rear of the larger house on the left includes an outshut with a 16-pane sash window, two 6-pane windows, and a small porch to the right with a door. A two-storey rear wing with a hipped roof and a side stack features a 16-pane sash window and a 20th-century window on the ground floor, and a 12-pane sash window on the first floor. The wing is rendered and served as an extension to the end house. The central house features two 4-pane sash windows on the first floor, a single-storey lean-to, and a 20th-century window on the ground floor. The end house on the right has two 16-pane sash windows on the first floor. The interiors were not inspected. The porches are characteristic of mine captains’ houses within the Devon Great Consols mining district.