LIMEHOUSE AT NGR SK 0415 7262

Limehouse is a late 18th-century structure made from quarried lime refuse and remnants of stone walling. It has a simple rectangular shape, open at the front and partially open on the right side, with an overhanging roof. There are traces of stone walling on the front right side. This building is a unique survivor of the limehouses mentioned in literature from the 1780s onwards. A description from 1797 notes that these limehouses often had three or four rooms and were typically built next to a limekiln. An example is illustrated in A Jewitt's "History of Buxton" from 1811. Additional descriptions were provided by the geologist Faujas St Fond and in Murray's Handbook from 1874. This particular limehouse is believed to have been occupied during the 1841 census.