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Latitude: 50.2926 / 50°17'33"N
Longitude: -4.9293 / 4°55'45"W
OS Eastings: 191449
OS Northings: 47731
OS Grid: SW914477
Mapcode National: GBR ZN.GQFP
Mapcode Global: FRA 08K8.9F8
Plus Code: 9C2Q73VC+27
Entry Name: Barn and Two Adjoining Engine Houses Approximately 10 Metres North of Trewithen Farmhouse
Listing Date: 17 October 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1141079
English Heritage Legacy ID: 62832
ID on this website: 101141079
Location: Cornwall, TR2
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Probus
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Probus
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Barn
PROBUS
SW 94 NW
5/81 Barn and 2 adjoining Engine
houses approx 10 metres North
of Trewithen Home Farmhouse
GV II*
Barn with two engine houses. C18 barn with circa 1800 horse engine house and a steam
engine house added in 1811. Flemish bound brick over stone plinth and with hipped
Delabole slate roof. Rectangular plain barn with horse engine house at rear and steam
engine house in the angle. Two storey. Six bays Slightly arched openings and dove
holes under wide eaves. South end wall has flight of granite steps with iron handrail
to loading door. Horse engine house at rear with steam engine house added in the
angle with a lean to roof. Interior: Pegged tie beam and collar rafter roof structure
in Main Barn. The steam engine was installed for. Sir Christopher Hawkins in 1811. It
was designed by Richard Trevithick and built at the Hayle Foundry. It was the first
steam engine made for threshing and the earliest surviving agricultural steam engine
in the world. It is now in store at the Science Museum Kensington. The engine was
taken out and exhibted at the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Kilburn in 1879 and
presented to the Science Museum by the Royal Agricultural Society in the same year.
The Trevithick engine is a single acting high pressure non-condensing steam-engine.
The boiler is a later replacement of possibly 1854. Information supplied by the
Science Museum, Kensington, London and the Royal Agricultural Society, Belgrave Square,
London.
Listing NGR: SW9144947731
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