Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613681

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]