Limekiln 40M to South East of Old Post Office
LIMEKILN 40M TO SOUTH EAST OF OLD POST OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138210
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Limekiln 40M to South East of Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- LIMEKILN 40M TO SOUTH EAST OF OLD POST OFFICE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138210
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Limekiln 40M to South East of Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMEKILN 40M TO SOUTH EAST OF OLD POST OFFICE
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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.
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:
- LIMEKILN 40M TO SOUTH EAST OF OLD POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morval
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2492756831
Details
SX 25 NW MORVAL SANDPLACE
3/75 Limekiln 40m to south east of Old
- Post Office
GV II
Limekiln. Possibly C18. Stone rubble with round arched dressed stone openings with
deeply splayed reveals. Rectangular in plan probably with 2 cylindrical chambers
within. Openings on right and left with further half round arch on front leading to
third grate served by right-hand chamber. Flat top, built into side of steep slope
to aid top loading with road access from left. Much overgrown at time of inspection.
Built about 60m to east of East Looe River and Liskeard and Union Canal which was
authorised in 1825 for agricultural work linking Liskeard with the tidal water at
Looe. Limestone carried by barge was burnt at the 4 limekilns at Sandplace (qv
Limekiln Cottage and limekiln adjoining to left, limekiln 40m south east of Old Post
Office, Limekiln on A 387 to north of Bamada and Limekilns adjoining Higher Cliff in
Duloe Parish). The canal was later replaced by the Liskeard and Caradon Railway
opened in 1846. Full accounts for the canal including plans and sections,
correspondence and list of land use in Cornwall County Record Office.
Records extant for erection of limekilns at Sandplace by John Francis Buller of
Morval in 1743 and 1766-67 (Anthony : BA/20/17b). Farm accounts reveal that Morval
lands received a heavy dressing of lime to counteract the acidity of the soil making
it suitable for wheat and barley. An annual lease of 1777 required each acre of land
to be dressed with 80 horse loads of good salt, sea sand or four 16 gallon bushels of
lime.
Cornwall Record Office Turnpikes, Canal and Ferries Handlist No. 5, 1983
Pounds, N.J.G. 'Barton Farming in Eighteenth Century Cornwall'. Journal of the Royal
Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Volume VII, part I, 1973, 55-75
Listing NGR: SX2492756831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Turnpikes Canals and Ferries, (1983)
Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall in Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall, Vol. 7, (1973), 55-75
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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