Survey Data
Reg No
22402602
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
180526, 171257
Date Recorded
27/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1900. Now disused. Pitched slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with decorative render surrounds, round-headed door opening with spoked fanlight and decorative render surround. Single-storey stone outbuildings to site with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and square-headed openings.
Appraisal
While this house has interesting render window surrounds and retains its slate roof, its main interest lies in the associated yard. The trays with stone cylinders visible in the photographs show the function of this site - the sorting of samples of extracted ores. The rudimentary building to the north-east contains purpose built storage for these samples. This yard forms part of an interesting group of mine buildings in and around Silvermines, including engine houses, chimneys, mines, and workers houses.