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This scheduled monument is the surviving structure of a tinners' building in Great Stannon Newtake, a piece of Dartmoor's industrial heritage from the period when tin extraction shaped the high moor. The building stands as evidence of the working lives of miners who laboured on this exposed upland, processing tin from the streams and ground around them.
Today the ruins form part of the complex archaeological landscape of the newtake, where enclosures, mineral workings and associated structures tell the story of how people exploited Dartmoor's resources. The site rewards those who walk the moor with an understanding of how extensively the high ground was worked and inhabited.
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