The plaque on this engine house reads that this was built around 1860 and is the only complete man engine house left in Cornwall It housed a 26 inch cylinder rotative beam engine for raising ore and powering the man engine in Dunkin's shaft nearby.
Uploaded to Geograph by Philip Halling on 2 January 2014
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