Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486 is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2003. Retaining wall.
Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486
- WRENN ID
- slow-clay-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2003
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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1757/0/10006
OAKAMOOR Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486
27-FEB-03
II Revetment wall to limekilns. c1806. Coursed and roughly dressed sandstone, with ashlar blocks to coping, archivolts and buttresses. Retaining wall approximately 20m long and 7m high, buttressed by six inclined sections on the principal west elevation and with a short return top the north west elevation has two semi-circular arched stoke holes, set between pairs of inclined sections.
HISTORY: constructed in association with the Uttoxeter Canal, which ferried lime from nearby Cauldon Lowe to the Potteries. Lime burning here was terminated in 1860 by the owner Eli Bowers, who had commenced activities at Froghall in 1858.
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