Description

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MYLOR
PERRAN WHARF
Smiths shop

(formerly part of group listed as Perran Foundry)

30.5.67

GV
II
Smiths shop, ruin. Circa early C19. Shale rubble walling with granite quoins, jambstones and lintels.

Plan was originally of a large rectangular building adjoining Loam shop and Moulding
Shop, at west (since removed and Green Sand Shop, qv.), to south. Outer walling only still standing with complete section along north side. Originally containing a water powered hammer mill and further water wheel beside south wall. (Much evidence of
former use can still be seen in surviving walling).

Two storeys. North wall has two original doorways and original vertical glazed window over right-hand doorway. On the inside of the wall are stone piers at each bay.

Part of the Perran Iron Foundry, founded in 1791, and in its heyday the most important foundry in Cornwall, manufacturing some of the largest beam engines ever constructed.

Plan of Perran Foundry, circa 1860 (CRO).

Listing NGR: SW7762438481

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434370

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6