Roadside Limekiln at Castle Quarry is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 February 1999. Industrial structure.
Roadside Limekiln at Castle Quarry
- WRENN ID
- inner-sandstone-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1999
- Type
- Industrial structure
- Address
- Roadside Limekiln at Castle Quarry, Garn-Fawr, Llanelli, Gorslas
- OS grid reference
- SN 532 150
- Coordinates
- 51.81448, -4.12964
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The roadside limekiln at Castle Quarry is approximately 7 meters in diameter and about 4 meters in height, constructed from rubble limestone. It extends from higher ground, with a path leading from the road to the top. There are two access archways positioned nearly opposite each other, both angled towards the road. These archways feature corbelled vaults with a span of about 2.5 meters, crafted in neat rubble stonework that tapers to a shallow point. The working openings at the base of the kiln are not visible. The top of the kiln is overgrown, but a depression in the surface suggests an internal diameter of about 3 meters at the top.
Local climate
Roadside Limekiln at Castle Quarry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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