Survey Data
Reg No
31212074
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Kiln
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
99701, 284428
Date Recorded
18/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1897, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with part ivy-covered squared limestone stringcourse below parapet. Single camber-headed oven between mass concrete piers with squared limestone voussoirs. Set in tarmacadam carpark.
Appraisal
A lime kiln representing an important component of the nineteenth-century industrial architectural heritage of Westport.