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This unusual group represents an outstanding
survival. It includes the pumping engine house which contained an
inverted vertical beam engine (unique to Cornwall) with compound
40-inch and 80-inch cylinders, the houses for winding, compressor
and crusher engines, and the miners’ dry or changing house. |
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West Basset stamps
A stamps engine house (which had a rear secondary
beam for pumping water for dressing) stands above one of the
finest surviving nineteenth century tin dressing floors in the
world.
The West Basset Mine, New Stamps (1875, Listed
Grade II) were made by the Tuckingmill Foundry and remains of the
dressing floors show three different phases - settling and
buddling (1875), additional buddle floor (1892), and the
installation of Frue vanners (1906).
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Wheal Basset
The stamps engine house (1868) of Wheal Basset was
unusual in that it contained two separate beam engines, side by
side. It stands above a prominent Frue vanner house (1908) and
Brunton calciner (1897). The count house survives nearby as a
private dwelling.
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