Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486

Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096063
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-2003
List Entry Name:: Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486
Statutory Address:: Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096063
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-2003
List Entry Name:: Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486
Statutory Address 1:: Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Oakamoor
National Grid Reference:: SK 05477 44877

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 January 2021 to reformat the text to current standards

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OAKAMOOR Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486 27-FEB-03

II Revetment wall to limekilns. c1806. Coursed and roughly dressed sandstone, with ashlar blocks to coping, archivolts and buttresses. Retaining wall approximately 20m long and 7m high, buttressed by six inclined sections on the principal west elevation and with a short return top the north west elevation has two semi-circular arched stoke holes, set between pairs of inclined sections.

HISTORY: constructed in association with the Uttoxeter Canal, which ferried lime from nearby Cauldon Lowe to the Potteries. Lime burning here was terminated in 1860 by the owner Eli Bowers, who had commenced activities at Froghall in 1858.

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490029
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.