Set Of Three Limekilns Approximately 350 Metres South East Of The Cliff House

TA 0720 15/10001

BARROW UPON HUMBER WOLD ROAD (south side, off) Set of three limekilns approximately 350 metres south-east of The Cliff house

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Limekilns. 1830s and later. Structures in hand-made red brick set in the ground, partly earth covered. Set of three single kilns, 4 to 10 metres apart in the quarry bottom, with flue entrances facing west into a sheltered U-shaped hollow. Each kiln consists of a brick-built open-topped bowl-shaped 'pot' 3 metres in diameter at the mouth, and approximately 3 metres deep, with a square-ended round-arched draw-tunnel approximately 1.5 metres high and up to 2.5 metres deep, at the back of which is a recessed segmental-arched draw-hole beneath a segmental relieving arch. The southern kiln is similar but also has sections of brick facing either side of the tunnel entrance, and a small triangular-headed opening c. 30cm high near the inner end of the tunnel. The kilns were probably the intermittent type. and form an interesting comparison with the later and larger continuous kilns in the neighbouring quarry to the west (qv). Together, the kilns in these adjacent chalk quarries provide a good illustration of developments in the scale and technology of the industry. They are also notable as the only known examples of this type of kiln surviving in Lincolnshire and Humberside, from the many that were known to have been operating in the region last century.

Listing NGR: TA0711420290