Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney at Sx 019599 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Kiln chimney.
Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney at Sx 019599
- WRENN ID
- sombre-portal-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Kiln chimney
- Address
- Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney at Sx 019599, Roche
- OS grid reference
- SX 019 598
- Coordinates
- 50.40543, -4.78819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney is a late 19th-century structure associated with a china clay drying process. It is built from granite rubble and brick, featuring a circular plan with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base. The chimney tapers upwards, with the lower stage made of granite and adorned with cast iron banding. The upper stage has a brick collar and a cornice. The rest of the drying facility is no longer standing.
Local climate
Bilberry Pit Kiln Chimney at Sx 019599 receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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