Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
16747
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/02/1996  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Southern Lime-Kiln Bank  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Belan  
Easting
321727  
Northing
305320  
Street Side
N  
Location
Built against the canal embankment, N of the by-road from Sarn-y-bryn-caled cottages.  

Description


Broad Class
Industrial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: The bank of lime-kilns forms part of a larger group with the northern kiln bank, developed in phases from the late C18 to the mid C19. The southern bank comprises 4 kilns built in 2 phases: the earliest are the 2 southern kilns (kilns 1- 2), which are probably c1815, and the northern pair (kilns 3- 4) were added later, probably c1840-50. Description: The kilns are all set into a rubble retaining wall against the canal embankment: Nos 1 & 2 are set further forward, and built on a higher level (originally a cart- loading platform) than Nos 3 and 4. This earlier pair of kilns have semi-circular arches with brick facing externally, and brick lined tunnels leading to the drawing- hole: in kiln No 2, the drawing-hole is set to the right of the tunnel, and the cone of the kiln survives; a further passage to the left of the main tunnel connected it with the cone (collapsed) of kiln No 1. Kilns 3 and 4 have high and wide segmental brick arched openings, blocked to No 4, set into the raked-back retaining wall; the wide brick lined arched tunnel (big enough to permit cart loading) survives in kiln 3, and slopes back down to the drawing hole, and the surviving cone of the kiln. Listed as part of an important complex of lime-kilns - the largest single group of kilns on the Montgomeryshire Canal - which together illustrate the typological development of the lime-kiln from the late C18 to the mid C19. Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, pp.64-66.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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