Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns
FORMER GUN SHED AND ATTACHED LIME KILNS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212577
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GUN SHED AND ATTACHED LIME KILNS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212577
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime Kilns
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GUN SHED AND ATTACHED LIME KILNS
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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:
- FORMER GUN SHED AND ATTACHED LIME KILNS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Austell Bay
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 03773 51711
Details
SX 0351 NE ST AUSTELL WITH FOWEY CHARLESTOWN
868/4/10001 Former Gun Shed and attached lime kilns GV II
Gun shed. c1804-5, built to house 18-pounder guns from the cliff battery (q.v.). Coursed stone rubble with brick right gable-end; gabled slate roof. Rectangular plan with ground-floor store for guns and first-floor carpenters' shop. 2 storeys; 4-window range. 3/2 pane sashes of 1991 with brick jambs to first floor; semi-circular-arched opening to left, timber lintel over opening with brick jambs to right; 4 buttresses. Left gable end has steps to loft door and timber lintels over flanking 3/3-pane sashes. Interior: heavy beams; cobbled floor; king-post roof. Subsidiary features; limekilns (on 1825 estate map) attached to right end and at right angles to rear left, built of squared granite blocks with chamfered coping to retaining walls, and keyed brick arches to kilns, that left adjoining sawpit. The kilns are of an unusually grand scale and flank a rare example of a gun shed of the Napoleonic era.
Listing NGR: SX0377351711
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397006
- 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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