Former Limekiln

This is a former limekiln, dating from 1819, that was adapted and restored in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed of local rubble stone, it incorporates a timber shelter and bench seating. The shelter has rendered columns and low walls, with slate roofs. The limekiln walls within the shelter are rendered, and the turrets on the structure are topped with scallop-shaped metal shingles. A modern door opening is topped with a granite lintel.

The limekiln has an irregular plan, built against a cove cliff underneath Readymoney Road, extending southwest in a broadly L-shaped layout. The southeast corner was infilled in the 1930s with a public shelter. It’s a tall, single-storey structure, with a broad stone elevation facing southeast, returning to the southwest and featuring a sealed arched opening to another southeast-facing wall. The public shelter fills in the south corner to the sea wall, and includes seating. A plaque on the shelter commemorates the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935, acknowledging the Mayor, W.C. Beale. A door has been inserted into the southwest wall, under a granite lintel, and the stonework around it is disturbed. Three of the southern corners feature corbelled turrets with cruciform detailing. The northwest corner wall to the roof is raised with some ramping, and appears to be the truncated remains of the limekiln chimney. The roof is flat and grassed, with benches set in concrete plinths and a modern lighting standard. A plaque in the northwest parapet commemorates Edmund Julian, dating to 1929.

A plant room behind the inserted door contains modern machinery, while other interior areas are inaccessible.

A rubblestone sea wall is engaged with the south corner of the limekiln, curving west and northwest to terminate at a low pier. It adjoins a modern ramp and steps leading to the beach. A mid-to-late single-storey toilet block and café are situated to the north.