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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1992
- Type
- Gun shed
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 0351 NE ST AUSTELL WITH FOWEY CHARLESTOWN
868/4/10001 Former Gun Shed and attached lime kilns GV II
Gun shed. c1804-5, built to house 18-pounder guns from the cliff battery (q.v.). Coursed stone rubble with brick right gable-end; gabled slate roof. Rectangular plan with ground-floor store for guns and first-floor carpenters' shop. 2 storeys; 4-window range. 3/2 pane sashes of 1991 with brick jambs to first floor; semi-circular-arched opening to left, timber lintel over opening with brick jambs to right; 4 buttresses. Left gable end has steps to loft door and timber lintels over flanking 3/3-pane sashes. Interior: heavy beams; cobbled floor; king-post roof. Subsidiary features; limekilns (on 1825 estate map) attached to right end and at right angles to rear left, built of squared granite blocks with chamfered coping to retaining walls, and keyed brick arches to kilns, that left adjoining sawpit. The kilns are of an unusually grand scale and flank a rare example of a gun shed of the Napoleonic era.
Listing NGR: SX0377351711
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