Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, Pentre Gwenlais Road (NE side) is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 December 1991. Military structure.
Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, Pentre Gwenlais Road (NE side)
- WRENN ID
- fading-nave-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1991
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, Pentre Gwenlais Road (NE side), Ammanford, Llandybie
- OS grid reference
- SN 608 163
- Coordinates
- 51.82834, -4.02096
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, built in 1903, is a large masonry structure that features lime kilns with a strongly battered front and right end. The building is constructed from randomly coursed rubble and has red brick semicircular arches over the working areas. Each working area contains a pair of deeply recessed, camber-headed working holes. Originally, there were hoppers at the front for drawing lime directly into railway wagons, and the upper parts of these chutes are still in place. This mechanised loading system contributes to the impressive height of the structure. A walkway runs across the front of the working areas, featuring square-headed tunnels with stone lintels set into the masonry piers. The kilns were loaded from a platform at the top, which still has remnants of a stone parapet. The left end of the structure has been reinforced. Inside, the tall cylindrical kilns are thickly lined with vitrified brick.
Local climate
Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, Pentre Gwenlais Road (NE side) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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