Description

ST JUST KENIDJACK
SW 33 SE
1/10044 Wheal Drea Pumping
Engine House

GV II

Beam engine house of former tin mine. c1859. Granite rubble, with dressed granite to
bob wall. Rectangular plan of approx. 7.6 x 5.2 metres, standing to 12 metres high,
with walls surviving from original boiler house of approx. 11.5 x 3 metres to north
west. Square-headed openings with twin lintels of granite (to exterior) and timber
(to interior). Upper section of rear wall has collapsed. NW corner stack finished in
brick. A substantially complete example of a beam engine house with its original
boiler house, a rare surviving example. This constitutes a significant surviving group
with the former miners' dry (qv) to the north west. (Cornish Archaeological Unit,
"St Just: An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District", 1992, pp. 188-92)

Listing NGR: SW3655732342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408862

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey