Lime Workings, Wairdlaw is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Lime kiln.
Lime Workings, Wairdlaw
- WRENN ID
- winter-ledge-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Lime kiln
- OS grid reference
- NS 995 730
- Coordinates
- 55.93987, -3.60987
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lime Workings at Wairdlaw, built in 1827, is a rectangular block featuring two simple draw-kilns, each with a barrel-vaulted access tunnel. The structure is constructed from whinstone rubble, with dressed squared sandstone used for the tunnels and the long and short quoins. The kilns are currently infilled. The overall frontage measures 50 feet, with a height of 27 feet. The vents are 12 feet wide, and the infilled kilns have a diameter of approximately 14 feet.
Local climate
Lime Workings, Wairdlaw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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