Limekiln is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Limekiln.
Limekiln
- WRENN ID
- weathered-alcove-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- Limekiln
- Address
- Limekiln, Stackpole Quay, Stackpole and Castlemartin
- OS grid reference
- SR 992 958
- Coordinates
- 51.62542, -4.90143
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Limekiln is a large square single limekiln, featuring a brick-lined bowl that widens to a diameter of 3 meters at the top platform level. It is built against high ground on its west side, with a path leading up to the platform from the quarry to the west. The working openings are positioned at road level on the east side.
The kiln is supported by buttresses on the north, south, and east sides. It has draw-arches made of corbelled construction on the north and south, with top slabs spanning up to 1 meter. Each arch contains an upper inspection hole approximately 20 centimeters square and a lower draw hole about 80 centimeters wide.
The bowl is lined with modern firebricks arranged in header bond, and this lining extends to the full height of the kiln, with indications that it once rose above the current kiln platform level. The kiln and its buttresses are made of limestone, showing traces of render. The top of the kiln has been made safe for public access, featuring a small parapet wall.
Local climate
Limekiln sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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