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BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1141079
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1141079
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AND TWO ADJOINING ENGINE HOUSES APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF TREWITHEN FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Probus
National Grid Reference:: SW 91449 47731

Details

PROBUS SW 94 NW 5/81 Barn and 2 adjoining Engine houses approx 10 metres North of Trewithen Home Farmhouse

GV II*

Barn with two engine houses. C18 barn with circa 1800 horse engine house and a steam engine house added in 1811. Flemish bound brick over stone plinth and with hipped Delabole slate roof. Rectangular plain barn with horse engine house at rear and steam engine house in the angle. Two storey. Six bays Slightly arched openings and dove holes under wide eaves. South end wall has flight of granite steps with iron handrail to loading door. Horse engine house at rear with steam engine house added in the angle with a lean to roof. Interior: Pegged tie beam and collar rafter roof structure in Main Barn. The steam engine was installed for. Sir Christopher Hawkins in 1811. It was designed by Richard Trevithick and built at the Hayle Foundry. It was the first steam engine made for threshing and the earliest surviving agricultural steam engine in the world. It is now in store at the Science Museum Kensington. The engine was taken out and exhibted at the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Kilburn in 1879 and presented to the Science Museum by the Royal Agricultural Society in the same year. The Trevithick engine is a single acting high pressure non-condensing steam-engine. The boiler is a later replacement of possibly 1854. Information supplied by the Science Museum, Kensington, London and the Royal Agricultural Society, Belgrave Square, London.

Listing NGR: SW9144947731

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 62832
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.