Description

ST CLEER SOUTH CARADON MINE
SX 26 NE
11/90 Engine house and chimney at
Jope's shaft
II
Engine house and chimney. Circa 1864. Granite rubble with granite quoins and brick
dressings.
Rectangular engine house, with rear gable end to south, front gable end to north with
remains of attached rectangular building. Detached chimney about 10 metres to north
east, connected by an underground flue to the middle building.
Engine house North gable end has wide round arch at ground floor, narrow arch above,
2 small square openings above and round arched opening in the gable apex. Left side
has a window with flat granite lintel at ground floor, 2 round-arched openings at
first floor and window at upper right level with flat granite lintel. Right side has
doorway with flat granite lintel, round-arched window at first floor. The rear gable
end is the bob wall, with round-arched window at ground floor with splayed reveal
internally; upper bob opening across the whole width of the building. Trench and
side walls to south east of bob wall.
Interior: Engine pit at the rear gable end.
Remains of rectangular building attached to west, with chimney about 3 metres from
its north gable end. The chimney is circular in plan, tapered, with an inspection
hole at the base. Connected by an underground flue to the middle building.
Jope's Shaft was an extension of the South Caradon Mine; the shaft was sunk in 1864,
and a man-engine was put in to Jope's Shaft by 1868. The mine was closed in 1885.
Sources: Barton, D.B.: A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East
Cornwall and West Devon 1964.

Listing NGR: SX2654269788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433259

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