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Latitude: 50.2534 / 50°15'12"N
Longitude: -5.2421 / 5°14'31"W
OS Eastings: 168983
OS Northings: 44296
OS Grid: SW689442
Mapcode National: GBR Z3.C031
Mapcode Global: VH12C.3W2M
Plus Code: 9C2P7Q35+95
Entry Name: Tolgus Tin Streaming Works
Listing Date: 12 September 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1142562
English Heritage Legacy ID: 66840
ID on this website: 101142562
Location: Gilbert's Coombe, Cornwall, TR16
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Redruth
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Treleigh
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Architectural structure
REDRUTH NEW PORTREATH ROAD
SW 64 SE
(west side)
5/280
Tolgus Tin Streaming Works
II
Tin streaming works. C19, various builds. Some uncoursed granite, but mostly
sheet walls on timber frames, partly rebuilt in concrete blocks, with corrugated
sheet roofs. A complex of small interlinked buildings under connected roofs. All
single storey but to various heights, some built into or beneath the bank above
the stream so that they appear to be below ground level. The exterior features
are of less interest than the internal plant: this includes a 12-head set of
Cornish stamps powered by an internal waterwheel (and working within the last 4
years); a wooden round-frame (apparently in working order); a ball-mill; and
numerous Holman flotation tables. The plant was used for recovery of tin from
waste ore. A rare survival of such plant in so complete a form, some of it of a
type which antedates steam power (e.g. the water powered stamps).
Listing NGR: SW6898344296
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