Description

CHACEWATER
SW 74 SW
4/80 Engine house, Part of Killifreth
- Mine, at SW 737442 SW
GV II
Beam engine house ruin with attached chimney. Mid-late C19. Killas rubble with
granite quoins jambstones and bonding stones. Brick arches. Round rubble chimney
with brick upper stage (south side). Gable end to west. Rectangular, single-cell
plan with attached round chimney to west of south wall. 3 storeys (now floorless).
Bob wall to east. All openings with round arches including holes for second floor
beams which were originally cantelevered over shaft. Walling intact. Roof and
framed and weather boarded upper part of bob wall missing. Chimney has corbelled
brick collar and cornice.
Killifreth Mine and Great Wheal Busy were developing contiguously from 1865 and
shafts were being sunk to greater depths. This engine house is part of the scheme.

Listing NGR: SW7371944287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614291

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)