Limekilns Approximately 60 Metres North-East of Bridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Industrial.
Limekilns Approximately 60 Metres North-East of Bridge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- little-quoin-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 420 256
- Coordinates
- 52.82561, -2.8612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The limekilns, located approximately 60 meters north-east of Bridge Farmhouse, are now disused and date back to 1797. They were part of the Hordley to Weston section of the proposed Shrewsbury Branch of the Ellesmere Canal, designed by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. The structure is built from roughly coursed limestone rubble, which is mainly hidden by an earth mound. It features three segmental-arched openings with red brick and engineering brick heads. Although the canal opened in 1797 and included a wharf, four limekilns, a public house, stables, a clerk's house, and a weighing machine, the project was ultimately abandoned as the canal did not reach Shrewsbury. This section of the canal was disused by 1917, following the bursting of the banks at Dandyford, a few miles north of Westonwharf. Bridge Farmhouse is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Limekilns Approximately 60 Metres North-East of Bridge Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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