Lime Kiln, Ballyvaddy Road, Carnlough, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Lime Kiln, Ballyvaddy Road, Carnlough, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- spare-chamber-bittern
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 286 154
- Coordinates
- 54.96989, -5.99263
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This lime kiln is an example of a once-common structure, now frequently derelict or incomplete. Constructed of basalt rubble on a square plan and built into a slight hillside, it features three orders of recessed segmental arches of limestone on the front face. Some of the voussoirs, or wedge-shaped stones, from the outermost arch are missing. A lintel covers the draw hole, which is now blocked, and the charging hole on top is obscured by overgrowth. The kiln appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and is believed to have been built between 1820 and 1839 for the small-scale burning of white limestone, or "chalk," to produce a rough powder for various uses. It stands in a rural area within a field overlooking Carnlough Bay, located downhill from an access road to a former quarry which was used as a dump and is now closed. The kiln is currently derelict and of industrial archaeological interest, situated within the townland of Bay and held in private ownership.
Local climate
Lime Kiln, Ballyvaddy Road, Carnlough, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 0.2°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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