Limekiln Cottage and Limekiln Adjoining to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Cottage.
Limekiln Cottage and Limekiln Adjoining to Left
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lime-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SX 249 569
- Coordinates
- 50.38614, -4.4643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Limekiln Cottage and the adjoining limekiln, located in Morval, is an end cottage in a terrace of three, dating from the late 17th century with 19th-century alterations. The cottage features a stone rubble exterior that is painted and rendered on the front elevation, topped with a steeply pitched asbestos slate roof that has gable ends and double gabled dormers at the front. A rendered brick chimney stack is located at the rear on the left side.
The cottage has a two-room layout with a through passage, and a narrow staircase slightly projecting to the left of the passage. The larger room on the left is heated by the rear lateral chimney stack. The limekiln, added to the rear of the left gable end, has had its entrance altered with a 20th-century porch added to the front of the limekiln at the gable end.
The cottage is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century two-light casements with small glazing bars and chamfered timber lintels with straight cut stops, flanking a part-glazed 20th-century door located to the right of centre. Above, there are two 19th-century gabled half-dormers featuring triangular-headed two-light casements with glazing bars. The left-hand gable end has a 20th-century rendered porch with a plank door, a four-pane casement, and a slate lean-to roof.
Inside, the cottage retains original chamfered ceiling beams with straight cut stops, as well as roof timbers with chamfered principals and chamfered collars that are partly halved, lapped, and pegged onto the face of the principals. The limekiln, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, is constructed of stone rubble and features a dressed stone arch opening to the kiln on the right-hand side, facing the cottage. It is built into the side of a bank to facilitate top loading.
Local climate
Limekiln Cottage and Limekiln Adjoining to Left sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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