Calcining Kilns

CALCINING KILNS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296302
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Calcining Kilns
Statutory Address:
CALCINING KILNS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296302
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Calcining Kilns
Statutory Address 1:
CALCINING 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CALCINING KILNS

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Spaunton
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
SE7208994876

Details

SPAUNTON BANK TOP
SE 79 SW
7/114 Calcining Kilns
- II
Calcining kilns. c1856, and later. For the Rosedale Mining Company.
Roughly squared stone faced with rusticated stone; interior lined with red
and cream bricks. Bank of 4 kilns, extended by a further 4 kilns. Openings
to the earlier kilns are narrow, round-headed arches of rusticated voussoirs
on rusticated piers. To right, 4 further kilns have wider, semicircular
arches similarly constructed of rusticated stone. To the rear of the
earlier bank of kilns the back wall survives, of rubble with flat coping
stones on top. The kilns have largely collapsed but sections of lining
bricks are visible behind the stone arches. No metal parts survive. The
kilns were constructed in association with the ironstone mine established in
1856 on the west side of Rosedale near Hollins Farm. They were built close
to the Bank Top terminus of the North Eastern Railway's Rosedale Branchline,
completed in 1861, from Ingleby on the Picton to Kildale line in Cleveland.
Ore was transported in rope-hauled wagons along a tramway from the mine to
the railway terminus where it was tipped into the kilns from above. It was
then roasted to drive off water and corbonic acid, thus reducing its weight
for onward transportation to County Durham and Teeside. With 2 temporary
closures in 1874 and 1879, the mine continued in operation until 1885. In
1864 the company's title was changed to the Rosedale and Ferryhill Iron
Company Ltd, and after the second closure a new company, The West Rosedale
Mine Company, was formed. R H Hayes and J G Rutter, Rosedale Mines and
Railway, Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society, Research Report
No 9.


Listing NGR: SE7208994876

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Legacy System number:
328945
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Scarborough Archaeological Society Research Report in Research Report Number 9, ()

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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