Former Miners' Dry at Sx 5119 7916 is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1991. Miners' dry.

Former Miners' Dry at Sx 5119 7916

WRENN ID
lapsed-bronze-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 June 1991
Type
Miners' dry
Address
Former Miners' Dry at Sx 5119 7916, Mary Tavy, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 511 790
Coordinates
50.59233, -4.10363
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Miners' Dry, located at SX 5119 7916 in Mary Tavy, is a mid-19th century building. It features walls made of uncoursed slatestone rubble and a gabled dry slate roof, with a large circular brick stack at the northeast end. The building has a rectangular plan, consisting of a large room that is divided by a stone wall from a smaller room with a fireplace at the southwest end. It is a single-storey structure. The front (northwest) wall includes segmental brick arches over two doorways and a central window, along with a large inserted opening to the right. Inside, there are bolted A-frame trusses. This building was constructed before 1884 and served as the "Dry" for Bennetts shaft, part of the Devon Friendship Mine. It is notable for being the only surviving example of a Miners' Dry on Dartmoor.

Local climate

Former Miners' Dry at Sx 5119 7916 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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