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Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm

England
List entry 1021165
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1021165
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.01 hectares
Grid reference
SW 59373 27015
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Wheal Prosper pumping engine house is a nineteenth-century industrial structure located near Eastcliff Farm in Cornwall, England. The building served as a pumping engine house for the tin and copper mining operations at Wheal Prosper mine, reflecting the significant mining activity that characterized the Cornish landscape during the Industrial Revolution. The structure represents the type of robust stone construction typical of Cornish mining engine houses of the period, designed to house the powerful steam engines that were essential for managing water drainage in deep mine workings. The monument is now a scheduled ancient monument, preserving evidence of Cornwall's once-dominant mining heritage.

Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021165. View the official record →

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What is Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm?

Wheal Prosper pumping engine house is a nineteenth-century industrial structure located near Eastcliff Farm in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021165.

Who is responsible for protecting Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm?

Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021165.

What other scheduled monuments are near Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wheal Trewavas copper mine 310m south of Trewavas (0.7 km), Pengersick Castle and associated building platform (1.8 km), Trevena Cross (2.4 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Wheal Trewavas copper mine 310m south of Trewavas
0.7 km
Pengersick Castle and associated building platform
1.8 km
Trevena Cross
2.4 km
Round cairn 225m NNW of Tregonning Hill House
2.7 km
Multi-period archaeological landscape on Tregonning Hill
3.3 km
Early Christian memorial stone and cross slab in St Hilary's churchyard
6.1 km
Two wayside crosses in St Hilary's churchyard
6.1 km
Wayside cross and cross slab in St Michael's churchyard
6.5 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm

Wheal Prosper pumping engine house 210m south of Eastcliff Farm stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

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