Description

SW 97 NE ST MINVER
HIGHLANDS
4/267 Barn and horse engine house
- lOOm to south of Treglyn
GV II
Barn with horse engine house attached. Barn 1844 (datestone) with horse engine house
added shortly after. Stone rubble with dressed granite quoins and brick segmental
arches to openings. Rag slate roof with half hipped ends to main range of barn.
Lower rag slate roof with polygonal end to horse engine house.
Barn, rectangular in plan with shippons on ground floor and threshing floor above.
Horse engine house in polygonal ended range to rear right.
Two storeys, asymmetrical elevation to barn. Ground floor with four ventilation
slits with pointed heads alternating with three segmental arched openings. First
floor with opposing threshing doors to left of centre. Five canted sides to single
storey horse engine house on rear; openings partly blocked.
Interior of horse engine house with hybrid machinery largely intact including gearing
and wheel. King post truss roof.
The survival of machinery for a horse engine house is exceptionally rare in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW9745076448

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506623

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)