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
16753
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/02/1996
Date of Amendment
19/10/2022
Name of Property
Buttington Limekilns
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Buttington Cross
Easting
324138
Northing
308919
Street Side
N
Location
Built into the E bank of the Montgomeryshire Canal immediately N of Bridge 115.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Early C19 limekilns. The earliest of the three kilns is the northernmost, which may have been built soon after construction of the canal, c1800. The two southernmost kilns appear to have been built as a pair, probably c1806-1814.
Shown on the Tithe Map as owned by the Powis estate and occupied by Robert Owen as ‘Lime kilns spoil bank etc’. Owen also occupied the adjacent ‘Cottage and garden’, this may be the surviving Limekiln Cottage adjacent to the roundabout on the A483.
Exterior
The three kilns are all of similar type: roughly coursed rubble retaining walls, slightly raked back in section, and with steeply cambered arches to the drawing tunnels. Firing holes bricked up. The drawing tunnels of the two southerly kilns are linked by a low arched passage. The circular, brick-lined charging holes survive, and are visible at canal level.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for special architectural and historic interest as a well-preserved set of limekilns of early type, and also of historic interest relating to the Montgomeryshire Canal.
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