Bowdenhill Limeworks is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Lime kiln.
Bowdenhill Limeworks
- WRENN ID
- tall-gable-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Lime kiln
- OS grid reference
- NS 977 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95314, -3.63844
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bowdenhill Limeworks features three single-vent kilns arranged in an L-shaped formation, which are heavily buttressed at the angle. The structure is partly infilled.
Local climate
Bowdenhill Limeworks sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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