Description

SW 73 NE
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MYLOR
PERRAN WHARF
Brass Shop, Bolt Shop and Boiler House

(formerly part of group listed as Perran Foundry)

30.5.67

GV
II
Brass shop, bolt shop and boiler house, now used as stores. Circa early C19. Lime-washed rubble with granite sills, quoins and timber lintels. Mostly clay pantile roofs with gable ends.

Irregular U-shaped plan of Brass Shop and Bolt Shop in wing projecting east on south side and boiler house projecting at north, adjoining Green Sand Shop qv at west and Smiths shop at north. Former waterwheel serving Smiths shop was in north west corner. Single storey. North wall of Bolt Shop and Brass Shop retain three original 30-paned cast iron windows with spikes behind glass.

Part of the Perran Iron Foundry, founded in 1791, and in its heyday the most important foundry in Cornwall, manufacturing some of the largest beam engines ever constructed.

Plan of Perran Foundry, circa 1860 (CRO).

Notable for the pantile roofs and the cast iron windows of which very few survive in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW7765038456

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434371

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)