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Latitude: 50.2171 / 50°13'1"N
Longitude: -5.2817 / 5°16'54"W
OS Eastings: 165984
OS Northings: 40384
OS Grid: SW659403
Mapcode National: GBR Z0.SFN1
Mapcode Global: VH12J.DSNY
Plus Code: 9C2P6P89+R8
Entry Name: Compresor House and Chimney Opposite Technical College Site
Listing Date: 7 April 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328140
English Heritage Legacy ID: 66594
ID on this website: 101328140
CAMBORNE DOLCOATH ROAD
SW 64 SE
(south side)
Tuckingmill
5/48 Compressor house and chimney opposite
Technical College site
7.4.83
GV II
Compressor house and associated chimney stack, on site of New Sump
Shaft of former Dolcoath Mine. Probably late C19; altered. The compressor
house is of slobbered killas rubble with granite quoins and brick arches to
the openings, and scantle slate roof; the chimney of uncoursed granite
rubble with a short top stage of brick. The compressor house is a
rectangular single cell; the symmetrical facade has a wide round-headed
doorway flanked by tall round-headed windows, all with quoined jambs and
keyed brick heads, and an oculus above the doorway with keyed brick
surround; the side walls have 2 similar windows (boarded at time of
survey, 1988). Hipped roof with cockscomb tiles on the short ridge. A low
sloped extension at the back links to the west side of the chimney stack,
which is of tapered cylindrical form, with a short set-back brick stage
finished with a simple moulded cornice. History: New Sump Shaft was
Cornwall's deepest and richest tin mine, dating from at least as early as
1815, and eventually reaching a depth of 3000 feet. Reference: J.Trounson
Mining in Cornwall Vol.One (1980).
Listing NGR: SW6598440384
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