Limekilns at Bohetherick at SX422679
LIMEKILNS AT BOHETHERICK AT SX422679
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329344
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Limekilns at Bohetherick at SX422679
- Statutory Address:
- LIMEKILNS AT BOHETHERICK AT SX422679
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329344
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Limekilns at Bohetherick at SX422679
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMEKILNS AT BOHETHERICK AT SX422679
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:
- LIMEKILNS AT BOHETHERICK AT SX422679
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Dominick
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 42268 67899
Details
ST DOMINICK SX 46 NW 4/207 Limekilns at Bohetherick at SX422679 II Limekilns. Probably late C18; shown in a watercolour of 1817. Slatestone rubble with stone dressings. Plan: Triple kiln with a central rectangular kiln and smaller kiln to each side. Built into the bank for top loading; on the bank of the River Tamar for water access. Exterior: The central kiln is about 7 metres long and about 5 metres deep; at the front there is a central pilaster rising to a string course. Flanking wings set back. The wing to right has a half-arch leading to an internal vault; this vault has a round arch to rear left, with stoke hole for the central kiln. Stoke hole to right to the end kiln. The front of the wing to right has a blind pointed arched window, with deep reveals. The wing to left has a 4-centred arch with roughly hewn keystone, similar internal vault with a stoke hole to the central kiln. There is also a stoke hole to the rear and to left. The left side of the kiln has another round arch with a vault, and an upper pointed arched blind window. On the top are three circular openings to the kilns, with rubble walls. The architectural treatment of this kiln is most unusual. The watercolour is signed MM and dated 1817, in the collection of Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SX4226867899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60957
- 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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