Description

CAMBORNE
SW 63 NE
8/7 Stamps engine house and
attached stamps approx 75 metres
south-east of Count house at
King Edward Mine
GV II*

Stamps engine house and associated stamps. Built by Camborne School of
Mines in 1902, slightly altered, and restoration in progress at time of
survey (1988). Weather-boarded timber frame and corrugated galvanised
sheet, with roofs of slurried slate and corrugated sheet respectively. The
engine house, which is on higher ground than the stamps but attached to it
at the north-east corner, and on a parallel axis, is rectangular in plan and
single-storeyed; its gabled and symmetrical 3-bay north facade has a
central porch with a door in the left side, two 6-pane windows in the
front, and mono-pitched roof, rectangular windows with 2-pane top-hung
casement openings above 6 fixed panes, and projecting weather-boarded
verge to the roof; the east side has 2 matching windows. Attached to the
west side, and set back, is the tall north gable wall of the stamps, which
is also weather-boarded, and has a central doorway at a high level; its
high west side has symmetrical fenestration, with a 9-pane fixed window
at each end of the ground floor and a similar but more closely-spaced pair
of windows at a higher level. Interior: the engine house walls are lined
with vertical pine boarding, with a dado, but the former 90-hp compound
engine has been removed; in the other part, however, the original 5-head
set of Fraser and Chalmers Californian stamps in a heavy timber frame,
purchased from the Paris Exhibition in 1900, is still in situ.
The item is the principal element in an uniquely complete set of turn-of-
the-century tin mining buildings on this site. Reference: A.W.Brooks, op.cit.

Listing NGR: SW6638338917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531901

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