Limekiln, Limeworks, Girlsta is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 2000. Lime kiln.
Limekiln, Limeworks, Girlsta
- WRENN ID
- western-hall-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 2000
- Type
- Lime kiln
- OS grid reference
- HU 430 505
- Coordinates
- 60.23653, -1.22448
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This substantial former lime kiln, built in 1870, has a square plan and features battered sides, set into a steeply sloping bank. The walls are constructed from random granite rubble, accented with stugged sandstone ashlar dressings. The east elevation has a segmental-arched opening, made of rubble voussoirs, which provides access to a brick-vaulted entrance tunnel or draw-arch. At the rear, there is a furnace opening and a draw-hole or eye. In the center of the kiln, there is a roughly semicircular brick-lined charging-hole or furnace pot, which rises to a splayed mouth at the kiln-head.
Local climate
Limekiln, Limeworks, Girlsta sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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