Limekilns is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Kilns.
Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-step-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Kilns
- Address
- Limekilns, Calstock
- OS grid reference
- SX 423 680
- Coordinates
- 50.49105, -4.22414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The limekilns at Cotehele Quay in Calstock date from the early 19th century and are constructed from slatestone and granite rubble. They consist of a large set of three kilns arranged in a rectangular plan, measuring about 20 metres across, with a lean-to addition on each side. The kilns are built into the bank for top loading. The front features a half-arch on each side, leading to a vault, with each vault containing a stoke-hole on the inner side for the central kiln. There are smaller circular kilns on each side, each with a stoke-hole on the outer side of the vault. The left side includes a two-storey lean-to with a door on the ground floor and an upper loading door, while the right side has a single-storey lean-to with a hipped roof, a door, and a window.
Local climate
Limekilns sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings