Octagonal Ventilation Shaft About 140 Metres South Of Canonteign Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. A Victorian Ventilation shaft.

Octagonal Ventilation Shaft About 140 Metres South Of Canonteign Barton

WRENN ID
eternal-tracery-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1988
Type
Ventilation shaft
Period
Victorian
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHRISTOW SX 88 SW 5/72 Octagonal ventilation shaft about 140 metres south of Canonteign Barton GV II Octagonal ventilation shaft at Wheal Exmouth lead and barytes mine. 1853. Stone rubble with granite ashlar quoins. Tall tapering octagonal shaft, battered at the base and incomplete at the top in an unusually ornamental style to match the adjacent engine house. Wheal Exmouth, operating from the 1850s to 1880 employed 70 underground workers in 1863. The site of the mine was visible from Canonteign House (q.v.), the Exmouth seat built in 1828 but later screened from it by tree planting. The ornate style was presumably employed for the sake of the view from Canonteign House.

Listing NGR: SX8373783005

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