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Latitude: 50.1281 / 50°7'41"N
Longitude: -5.3654 / 5°21'55"W
OS Eastings: 159565
OS Northings: 30762
OS Grid: SW595307
Mapcode National: GBR FX4B.M4C
Mapcode Global: VH131.Y1CM
Plus Code: 9C2P4JHM+6R
Entry Name: Engine House at SW595307 Leeds Shaft Great Work Mine and Associated Remains
Listing Date: 26 August 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328328
English Heritage Legacy ID: 65697
ID on this website: 101328328
Location: Great Work, Cornwall, TR13
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Breage
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Breage with Godolphin and Ashton
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Chimney
SW 53 SE BREAGE
3/8 Engine House at SW595307 Leeds
Shaft Great Work Mine and
associated remains
GV II
Beam. engine house ruin and associated remains. Circa 1829. Granite rubble walls
with dressed granite quoins and jambstones, granite ashlar bob wall, two granite
keyed round brick arches otherwise wooden lintels.
Rectangular single cell plan with thicker bob wall at the south side. Floors, roof
and machinery removed.
Three storeys over basement pit. South bob wall has central round-arched ground
floor opening (plug doorway). Ashlar masonry reinforced with later iron bands.
Weather boarding to 2nd floor and gable removed. Opposite north wall has similar
ground floor arched opening (known as the boiler doorway), with smaller opening to
1st floor over; small holes for 2nd floor beams and window opening to 2nd floor with
masonry of gable missing above lintel level. Two irregularly disposed openings to
each side (wing) wall.
Foundations of other structures nearby.
This is an unusually old example of an engine house and originally housed a 60"
pumping engine. The engine was rebuilt in situ by Harvey in 1857 and worked until
the late 1890s. It was a 'high duty' engine, i.e. an engine that exceeded the
average efficiency attained by pumping engines in Cornwall as recorded in Lean's
monthly statistics.
Source: Kenneth Brown, council member of the Trevithick Society.
Listing NGR: SW5956530762
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