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Latitude: 50.1325 / 50°7'57"N
Longitude: -5.6877 / 5°41'15"W
OS Eastings: 136557
OS Northings: 32342
OS Grid: SW365323
Mapcode National: GBR DXBB.HHH
Mapcode Global: VH057.CXGS
Plus Code: 9C2P48M6+2W
Entry Name: Wheal Drea Pumping Engine House
Listing Date: 23 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1115110
English Heritage Legacy ID: 351298
ID on this website: 101115110
Location: Boscean, Cornwall, TR19
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: St. Just
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: St Just-in-Penwith
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Engine house
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
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