LIME KILN AT SX 434 523

SX 45 SW MILLBROOK MILLBROOK

6/273 Lime kiln at SX 434 523

GV II

Lime kiln. C18, with cottage attached to side, probably of early C19, now ruinous. Slatestone with some sandstone, some granite quoins and lintels to fire door openings. Rectangular kiln, about 30 feet square and about 15 feet high, built into bank. Walls have slight batter. Single kiln; access arches with semicircular heads on east and west sides. Eastern arch has sandstone keystone. The kiln is open at top, its section is an inverted cone, the upper part tapering inwards. No firebrick lining. A one-room plan cottage was built against the west face of the kiln, partly built of sandstone, lower room cut into bedrock and upper room with fireplace; roofless. (Sources: Gaskell Brown, C.: (ed.) A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Plymouth. 1980. Robertson, R. and Gilbert, C.: Aspects of Domestic Archaeology of Cornwall 1979)

Listing NGR: SX4331252232