Lime Kiln
LIME KILN, EASTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281854
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Kiln
- Statutory Address:
- LIME KILN, EASTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281854
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Kiln
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIME KILN, EASTON LANE
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, EASTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6904672727
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE EASTON LANE, Easton 969-1/1/34 (East side) 27/11/84 Lime Kiln (Formerly Listed as: EASTON STREET No.2)
II
Lime kiln and attached outbuilding. C19. Coursed rubble, corrugated iron roof. A prominent half-cylindrical kiln built into the roadside bank, with a low single-storey lean-to range aross the front. The kiln rises c 4m from pavement level, and is c 3.5m wide, with flat plain front over an opening to large quoins, the hearth in a brick segmental vault filling an earlier opening. The back of the kiln is semi-circular, built into the slope, with plain stone-on-edge parapet wall. Attached lean-to is c 10m long and 1.75m high at front; wide trimmed opening to kiln front, and a door to left giving to room with stone sett floor. Although abandoned, and in poor condition, this is of historic interest as a substantial remaining kiln on the island.
Listing NGR: SY6907572440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381927
- 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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