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
22188
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/08/1999
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
Garn Limekiln No. II (2nd from north in group)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Aberbythych
Town
Llanelli
Locality
Carmel Woods
Easting
258971
Northing
216189
Street Side
Location
Near the middle of a group of four surviving kilns 100m east of the A476, reached by a short lane 200m south of Eglwys Fair, Carmel. Quarry to the east.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
One of several limekilns at this location in c1876-85. It may then have been disused or under construction, as, unlike its two neighbours, no mineral tramway is indicated on the OS plan as connected to it. It was disused by 1906.
The landholding was a part of the Cawdor estate named Tir-y-garn (based on Garn farmhouse, 300m south-east).
Exterior
A fine single limekiln in neatly squared and coursed limestone masonry. About 9m in width, about 6m high. Straight front wall with sides returning at nearly 90°. Two working areas each with a semicircular outer arch, separated by a tapering projecting pier of masonry, and extending about 4m in from the front. Semicircular inner arches over the two kiln working holes.
The top is eroded and the interior diameter is not apparent.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of the better-surviving limekilns in an area of intensive C19 and C20 quarrying and lime-burning industry; one of an important surviving contemporary group.
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