Gomm rotative beam engine house
Location/Address
West of Ruddlemoor, Treverbyn
Type
Description
An engine house (HER No. 20087.30) at Gomm china clay works, first recorded on the 2nd Edition OS 1:2500 of 1907, and visited by CAU in 1999. This engine house served the Gomm pit and housed a Cornish beam engine of the rotative type. Originally, the complex consisted of engine-house, loadings to the front, and a boiler house and stack at the rear, on the area now occupied by the path. The house is granite-built, with brick detailing to some window openings. The loading at the front for the crank and flywheel is now ruinous and incomplete, but the flywheel slot on the front of the bob-wall is clearly defined. A fragment of the boiler house wall survives at the rear. Unusually, there is no cylinder arch in the rear wall.
Recommended by local Cornwall councillor, Dick Cole, for inclusion in the CLHL and as a potential candidate for statutory protection.
Statement of Significance
Asset type
China clay engine houseAge
19th century
Date Listed
n/a
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