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
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2003
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor
- OS grid reference
- SK 054 448
- Coordinates
- 53.0012, -1.91984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall to the lime kilns in Oakamoor dates from around 1806 and is constructed of coursed and roughly dressed sandstone, featuring ashlar blocks for the coping, archivolts, and buttresses. The wall is approximately 20 meters long and 7 meters high, supported by six inclined sections on the main west elevation. It includes a short return on the northwest elevation and has two semi-circular arched stoke holes situated between pairs of inclined sections. This structure was built in connection with the Uttoxeter Canal, which transported lime from nearby Cauldon Lowe to the Potteries. Lime burning at this site ceased in 1860 when owner Eli Bowers shifted operations to Froghall, having started there in 1858.
Local climate
Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486 receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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