Cape Cornwall Engine House Chimney

 chimney, interesting place, Grade II Listed (UK)

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The marvelously ornate stack at the top of Cape Cornwall. Usually stacks were built from granite rubble with the top section made from brick.

A beam engine house to Cape Cornwall tin mine, constructed by 1864, housing a 26-inch cylinder double acting engine used for pumping, winding and powering the stamps. The chimney stack for the engine house was situated away from the building on the headland. The stack was constructed in 1864-65 and was connected to the boiler house by a long flue extending upslope. The chimney was replaced by a chimney constructed nearer to the engine house as the draught from the original chimney was too fierce for the grate. The original chimney was left in situ to act as a daymark for sailors. A field survey by Cornwall Archaeological Unit in 1992 found there were no traces of the replacement chimney or engine house.

www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1468533
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-69221-cape-cornwall...