Walled Enclosure at Craiglas Lime Kilns is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1996. Garden and memorial structure.
Walled Enclosure at Craiglas Lime Kilns
- WRENN ID
- winding-hearth-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1996
- Type
- Garden and memorial structure
- Address
- Walled Enclosure at Craiglas Lime Kilns, Llansantffraed
- OS grid reference
- SN 518 683
- Coordinates
- 52.29302, -4.17351
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Walled Enclosure at Craiglas Lime Kilns consists of four lime kilns built into a bank and connected by rubble stone walls that support the bank. The kilns, made of rubble stone and approximately 4 meters high, are unusually rectangular in shape and all have open crucibles in poor condition. Kiln 1, located to the southwest, measures about 7 meters deep and 8 meters wide. It features three tall kiln eyes that are triangular and tapering, standing 2.5 meters high at the front and 2 meters deep.
The walled bank extends northeast approximately 9 meters to kiln 2, which is similar in size to kiln 1 and has similar kiln eyes, but it is reinforced with rough rubble stone buttresses on each side of the west corner. Continuing northeast, the bank extends about 7 meters to kiln 3, which resembles kiln 1 but has a rough rubble stone buttress on the northwest side of the west corner. Kiln 3 shares a large kiln eye with kiln 4, which is only 1 meter away. Kiln 4 is smaller than the others, measuring only 5 meters wide, and has a rough rubble stone buttress on the northeast side of the north corner.
To the southeast of kiln 1 is a walled enclosure constructed of rubble stone, measuring approximately 10 meters by 10 meters and standing 3 meters high. The wall is 0.5 meters thick and features a large gate made of spear-headed iron railings on the northeast side. Additionally, there are several stone and timber structures on the beach that may have served as quays or shelters for boats unloading lime.
Local climate
Walled Enclosure at Craiglas Lime Kilns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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