Lime kiln is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 2021. Lime kiln. 3 related planning applications.
Lime kiln
- WRENN ID
- winter-arch-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 2021
- Type
- Lime kiln
- Address
- Lime kiln, Waterside House, 17 Lower Street, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 2BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 048 185
- Coordinates
- 50.95676, -0.50915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century lime kiln.
The building features coursed, rubble stone walls, a lime-stained red-brick ceiling, and an earth-covered roof. It has a square plan with two side-by-side chambers oriented north to south, interconnected by two low-level draw eyes visible from the eastern chamber. This chamber includes doorways to the east and south, facing the River Arun. On the western side, a bank rises to meet the top of the western chamber, where there would have been an opening for charging layers of charcoal and chalk, though this opening is now overgrown and not visible.
The kiln stands approximately 5 meters tall with walls around 11 meters long. The doorways are round-headed and feature a red brick architrave, although the top of the southern doorway is damaged.
Inside, the eastern chamber has a barrel-vaulted ceiling made of brick in a heading bond, with a U-shaped metal bracket at the center. The end and side walls are made of coursed stone up to about 1.5 meters high. The wall connecting the two chambers has two round-headed brick draw eyes set in a brick panel, and the floor is made of packed earth. The western chamber has likely been infilled with earth.
Local climate
Lime kiln receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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