Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486
Retaining wall to lime kilns at SK0547 4486, Oakamoor
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Overview
- 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
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
1757/0/10006
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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