Description

CHACEWATER
SW 74 SW
4/37 Engine house and boiler house and
- workshop ruins at Engine Shaft,
part of Killifreth Mine at
SW 736442 SW
II
Beam engine house ruin with attached chimney and ancillery ruins. Circa late C19.
Killas rubble with granite quoins, jambstones and bonding stones. Round stone rubble
chimney with brick upper stage (north west) and round-headed brick arch to bob wall.
Otherwise timber lintels. Rectangular plan with ruins of rectangular building to
north and further ruined engine house to west. Main engine house has no floor, roof
or timberwork over bob wall but stone walls are fairly intact except west gable which
has fallen. Chimney has corbelled brick collar.
Killifreth Mine was re-started in 1865 and engines were installed so that greater
depths could be worked, and presumably this engine house is part of the new scheme.
Killifreth at this time was also linked to Great Wheal Busy and Wheal Unity Wood.

Listing NGR: SW7360044200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433729

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)