Lime Kiln Approximately 100 Metres North Of Cement Works

This is a lime kiln dating to the mid-to-late 19th century, located approximately 100 metres north of the Cement Works. The kiln is constructed of squared limestone with red brick dressings and internal vaulting, featuring a timber and steel framework – incorporating re-used railway rails – for former hoists, loading platforms, and a balcony. It is rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 30 metres by 13 metres at its base, with intersecting round-arched tunnel vaults at ground level and upper stages. The structure stands adjacent to a railway siding to the north-west. A tapering, five-stage tower, approximately 15 metres high, is partially buried up to the second stage on its east half by spoil from the nearby cement works.

The north-east side has a central, full-height recessed section containing openings and remnants of a heavy timber framework for former doors or loading platforms. The bottom stage features a central round-headed opening flanked by smaller similar openings, although the central and left arches are obscured by spoil. The second stage has a central round-headed arch with remnants of hinged timber framework. The third stage has a wide round-arched opening. A string course, with a steel rail between single brick courses and projecting steel supports, is followed by a small square opening on the fourth stage. The top stage includes a similar string course, a small circular opening, a projecting single-course masonry band, and a blocking course above. The south-west side has openings to the bottom stage that are obscured, a round-headed opening to the second stage flanked by pairs of small square openings, and a round-headed opening above flanked by balcony supports. A string course is followed by the top stage’s string course and a steel rail cutting across a round-headed opening.

The north-west and south-east sides exhibit a pair of round-headed openings to the bottom stage, four small square openings to the second stage, a string course with a steel rail, a pair of round-headed openings to the third stage, a pair of larger round-arched openings to the balcony stage, a string course, and a blank top stage. All openings have brick arches or surrounds, with most featuring projecting steel rails, likely to support loading platforms. The kiln was disused and derelict at the time of resurvey.