Beehive Lime Kiln
BEEHIVE LIME KILN, RUGBY CEMENT WORKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380566
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Beehive Lime Kiln
- Statutory Address:
- BEEHIVE LIME KILN, RUGBY CEMENT WORKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380566
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Beehive Lime Kiln
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEEHIVE LIME KILN, RUGBY CEMENT WORKS
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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:
- BEEHIVE LIME KILN, RUGBY CEMENT WORKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chinnor
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7561500106
Details
SP7500
1706/15/10003
11-JUL-00
CHINNOR
RUGBY CEMENT WORKS
Beehive Lime Kiln
II
Flare-kiln for lime burning. Built 1908. Brick. About 6 metres tall, of bottle or bee-hive shape. It is the remaining one of five similar kilns, the others having been demolished. The dome of the kiln rises from a brick base with a large semi-circular arch on the NW side within which is a loading door. Remains of another round arch on the SW side, blocked doorway on NE side and three stoking holes on SE side.
INTERIOR: Iron fire-grates of three internal flues in the floor.
NOTE: In 1908 W.E. Benton established Chinnor Lime Works, a small lime manufacturing works at Chinnor, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, for the production of lump lime for agriculture and construction. In 1919 a small cement producing plant was developed adjacent to the bank of five flare-kilns which produced up to 240 tons per week. The kilns continued in production until 1938.
SOURCE: A Brief History of Chinnor Works [2/11/1990].
Listing NGR: SP7561500106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
A Brief History of Chinnor Works, (1990)
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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