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Summary

The first Quay House is illustrated on the Tavistock Parish Tithe map of 1842.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1002667: Gawton arsenic mine and flue

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BUILDING (XIX - 1842 AD (Between) to 1842 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

A building is depicted.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

A building is depicted.

Buck, C., 2006, Gawton Mine, Devon: Archaeological Assessment, 54-55 (Report - Assessment). SDV344672.

The first quay house appears to be shown on the Tithe Map of 1842 with its own entrance and garden. This building may well have also sited the Quay’s offices. By 1867 another pair of buildings (Site No. 57) had been attached to the south east side of the original building. This ‘earlier’ building has 6.0 metre high masonry walls. Both the west and east walls are collapsing inwards as horizontal timber components have rotted. The doorway interior timber lintel has rotted and the inner wall face is beginning to collapse.
Temporary timber shoring to both sides of the wall should be erected to stop any further movement. Emergency consolidation works should be carried out to stabilise the inner face of the east wall by adding new tanalised timber lintels to the doorway. A structural engineer should prepare a report. The longer term consolidation works may well necessitate rebuilding of the upper sections of each west and east wall above the horizontal timber sections. Upper wall capping following rebedding and general repointing where necessary will consolidate the wall. Other details: Site No. 57.1.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

A building is depicted.

Clive Meaton, 2023, Gawton Mine, Devon- Costed and Prioritised Proposals for Capital Works for the Conservation and Management of Gawton Mine Scheduled Monument (Redacted Costs Version), 143-147, Photograph 82 and 83, Figure No. 7 (Report - Survey). SDV366131.

The first Quay House is illustrated on the Tavistock Parish Tithe map of 1842 at SX 45068 68807. The first Quay House had 6 metre high surviving masonry walls in 2006, but both east and west were collapsing inwards as horizontal timbers had rotted causing the walls to drop and pull away from the corner returns. The doorway interior lintel had rotted, causing the inner wall face above to collapse. Temporary shoring was recommended to stop further movement to the walls of the Quay House.
The Quay House was still overgrown during this survey. Lintels to window openings were braced with scaffolding and timber in the east elevation, with similar propping to an opening in the west elevation on the south end. A large vertical crack was also noted in the west elevation on its north-west corner. The fireplace was locally precarious, requiring consolidation, as the area of scaffold within the central area was providing only minimal support. The remains of the early Quay House are comparatively well preserved and are the only examples on this type on Site. They can be considered a very rare surviving feature for mines across the Tamar Valley and represent different phases of construction and activity at Gawton Mine, so will contain important historical and evidential value dating from much of the 19th century. The remains are considered to be of very high significance relative to other features and structures within the Site. The chimney in the Quay House should be consolidated and the fracture in the north-west corner stitched. The location of the Quay House is based on the Site Plan Figure No. 7. Other details: Site No. 57.1.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4746 - Archaeological Assessment of Gawton Mine, Devon
• EDV4747 - Field Survey of Gawton Mine
• EDV9132 - Gawton Mine, Devon- Costed and Prioritised Proposals for Capital Works for the Conservation and Management of Gawton Mine Scheduled Monument

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