Lime Kilns is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Lime kilns.
Lime Kilns
- WRENN ID
- silver-steeple-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Lime kilns
- Address
- Lime Kilns, Kingsley
- OS grid reference
- SK 026 476
- Coordinates
- 53.02576, -1.96146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lime kilns, dating from the early 19th century, are constructed from rock-faced sandstone ashlar and feature brick arches and spandrels lining the furnaces. A massive retaining wall, approximately 12 meters high and 50 meters long, is divided into six bays by battered sections of stonework. Each bay has a round-arched entrance, about 2 meters high, set on impost bands, with a dentilled band above each arch beneath the stonework. The kilns are part of a group located at the head of the Caldon Canal, which includes a tramway terminus, a warehouse, and a bridge. The canal was built around 1779 to transport limestone from Caldon Low, with the stone being brought down to the canal head via tramway.
Local climate
Lime Kilns receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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