Lime Kiln is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. A Industrial Lime kiln. 3 related planning applications.
Lime Kiln
- WRENN ID
- ancient-gutter-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1988
- Type
- Lime kiln
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Lime Kiln, Canton, St. Goran, PL26 6JP
- OS grid reference
- SX 012 415
- Coordinates
- 50.24055, -4.78798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime kiln. Likely built in 1812, with few later alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed slatestone rubble with brick dressings.
The kiln has a large square plan, with its front directly facing the beach and a slipway running alongside its right side. The kiln is built into the bank at the rear to facilitate loading of material into the kilns at the top, which are now filled in. The front elevation is blank. The right side, facing Canton, has two round-arched openings with brick dressings, containing a 20th-century plank door. The left side and the rear have no openings.
In 1812, John Pill leased land to Richard Nicholls for the construction of a lime kiln and lime house.
Local climate
Lime Kiln receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 10 transactions since 1997
- 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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