LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177092
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203
Statutory Address:: LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177092
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203
Statutory Address 1:: LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203

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:: LIMEKILNS SET ON PLATFORM AT NGR ST 2773 2203

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 27730 22030

Details

STOKE ST MARY CP ST22SE

5/115 Limekilns set on platform at NGR ST 2773 2203 -

- II

Pair of limekilns. Dated 1906. For G Small and Son. Blue lias squared and coursed. Plan: pair of limekilns set into hillside with small square vent between just above ground level. Semi-circular openings carried on piers, barrel vault, voussoirs of depressed segmental arch, depressed 4-centred arch opening to stoke hole, both bays have doorless metal safes set into left hand wall; circular flues left open, right blocked. Square tablet above right hand kiln inscribed G(eorge) S(mall) 1906. Both kilns with corrugated iron pentice porches. Facade largely obscured by ivy at time of survey (December 1984) but in generally good condition. A platform about 500 mm high fronts the kilns to facilitate loading. The field at the rear of kilns was a quarry for lime, now filled in. The kiln masters house stands to the north (not included) and the kilns ceased production cl939. Amongst the last liRekilns built and the only known dated example in the county.

Listing NGR: ST2773022030

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 270903
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.