Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1992. Gun shed.

Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns

WRENN ID
hollow-kitchen-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1992
Type
Gun shed
Address
Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns, St. Austell Bay
OS grid reference
SX 037 517
Coordinates
50.33255, -4.75861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former gun shed, built around 1804-1805, was designed to store 18-pounder guns from the nearby cliff battery. It is constructed from coursed stone rubble with a brick gable end and features a gabled slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan and consists of two storeys, with a ground-floor storage area for guns and a first-floor carpenters' shop. The facade includes a four-window range with 3/2 pane sashes from 1991, brick jambs on the first floor, and a semi-circular arched opening to the left with a timber lintel and brick jambs to the right. There are four buttresses supporting the structure. The left gable end has steps leading to a loft door, with timber lintels above the flanking 3/3-pane sashes. Inside, the gun shed features heavy beams, a cobbled floor, and a king-post roof.

Attached to the right end of the gun shed are lime kilns, which are shown on an 1825 estate map. These kilns are built from squared granite blocks with chamfered coping on the retaining walls and have keyed brick arches. The kilns are notable for their grand scale and are positioned at right angles to the rear left of the gun shed, adjacent to a sawpit. This site represents a rare example of a gun shed from the Napoleonic era, complemented by the impressive lime kilns.

Local climate

Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns 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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