Bank of Lime Kilns on N side of canal near Lime Kiln Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 2005. Industrial.
Bank of Lime Kilns on N side of canal near Lime Kiln Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-glass-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 2005
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Bank of Lime Kilns on N side of canal near Lime Kiln Cottage, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 055 279
- Coordinates
- 51.94159, -3.37507
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bank of Lime Kilns, located on the north side of the canal near Lime Kiln Cottage, is a long structure made of red-brown stone. It features an arrangement of alternating pairs of round-arched kilns and smaller camber-headed chambers. Although the bank of kilns is heavily overgrown, it appears to consist of, starting from the eastern end, two round-headed chambers followed by two camber-headed chambers, then another two round-headed chambers and two camber-headed chambers, followed by two more round-headed chambers and a smaller opening. After a very overgrown section, there are two additional round-headed chambers near the western end.
Local climate
Bank of Lime Kilns on N side of canal near Lime Kiln Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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