Description

CALSTOCK WHEAL BENNY
SX 37 SE
1/146 Mine buildings-including wheel pit
and arsenic calciner
II
Mine buildings at Wheal Benny, including wheel pit and arsenic calciner. Late C19.
Slatestone rubble with brick dressings.
Plan: Wheal Benny is on the bank of the River Tamar. The site includes wheel pit
large enough to accommodate a 50 foot wheel, 4 tin buddles and a Brunton calciner
with flues. The calciner is of square plan, with round-arched opening to front
leading to an internal vault, with grate at the left side. The flues are to west of
the calciner, above ground with arched openings. At the east end of the site is a
wheel pit with rubble walls, external rubble housing for the wheel shaft ; the mine
was water powered, the leat running above the mine to the south.
Sources: Tamar Valley Project.

Listing NGR: SX3975273129

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432972

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments