Description

CHACEWATER
SW 74 SW
4/41 Engine house chimney at approx 50n
21.11.85 east of Read's Shaft
GV II
Beam engine house ruin. Circa late C19. Killas rubble and brick. Originally
rectangular single-cell plan with chimney to north east corner but now only chimney
and some attached walling survives. Originally 3 storeys. Chimney is of rubble to
lower stage and brick to upper stage divided by corbelled brick collar.
Included for group value.
Great Wheal Busy is a very old mine, working in 1823 under the name of 'Chacewater
Mines' and 'Great Wheal Busy' from 1856. Described in 1865 as having: pumping engine,
stamping engine, winding engine and crushing engine.
Information from THE MINES OF CORNWALL by Thomas Spargo.

Listing NGR: SW7267444642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433733

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets