Lime Kiln at SX 434 523
LIME KILN AT SX 434 523
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140605
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Kiln at SX 434 523
- Statutory Address:
- LIME KILN AT SX 434 523
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/14680/07
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Spreadborough. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140605
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Kiln at SX 434 523
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIME KILN AT SX 434 523
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.
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:
- LIME KILN AT SX 434 523
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Millbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4331252232
Details
SX 45 SW MILLBROOK MILLBROOK
6/273 Lime kiln at SX 434 523
GV II
Lime kiln. C18, with cottage attached to side, probably of early C19, now ruinous.
Slatestone with some sandstone, some granite quoins and lintels to fire door
openings. Rectangular kiln, about 30 feet square and about 15 feet high, built into
bank. Walls have slight batter. Single kiln; access arches with semicircular heads
on east and west sides. Eastern arch has sandstone keystone. The kiln is open at
top, its section is an inverted cone, the upper part tapering inwards. No firebrick
lining. A one-room plan cottage was built against the west face of the kiln, partly
built of sandstone, lower room cut into bedrock and upper room with fireplace;
roofless.
(Sources: Gaskell Brown, C.: (ed.) A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Plymouth.
1980.
Robertson, R. and Gilbert, C.: Aspects of Domestic Archaeology of Cornwall 1979)
Listing NGR: SX4331252232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, C G, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Plymouth and Millbrook, (1980)
Robertson, R, Gilbert, G, Institute of Cornish Studies Special Reports in Some Aspects of the Domestic Archaeology of Cornwall, (1979)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 07-Jul-2026 at 17:06:55.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.