Description

CALSTOCK EAST CALSTOCK MINE
SX 46 NW
4/97 Engine house, boiler house and
two chimneys
II
Mine buildings at East Calstock Mine, including engine house, boiler house and two
chimneys. Late C19. Slatestone rubble.
Plan: The engine house is of rectangular plan, with one chimney about 15 metres to
north and the second chimney about 20 metres to south east, with single storey
building attached. The engine house has the bob wall to south in the gable end, with
round arch and lower round-arched opening ; window openings to sides. Cylinder
bedstone in the engine house. The northern chimney is circular and tapered, with
brick cornice ; the southern chimney is circular and tapered, in rubble only, with a
single storey building attached with doorway and window openings.
In 1865 there was a 42 inch pumping engine with a 24 inch whim engine. East Calstock
Mine produced copper, and is located to the west of the line of the East Cornwall
Mineral Railway.
Sources: Tamar Valley Project. Barton, D.B.: Mines and Mineral Railways of East
Cornwall and West Devon 1964.

Listing NGR: SX4262769658

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432991

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