Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10549
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Limekiln to SW of Old Castle Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Cardigan
Town
Locality
Easting
216515
Northing
246307
Street Side
Location
Situated on East bank of River Teifi, by high water mark, some 50m SW of Old Castle Farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Early to mid C19
Exterior
Limekiln in coursed, tooled blue lias stone. Large scale, built into bank with three-sided, near-square plan, the E and W faces pierced by tall kiln-eyes, to nearly full height; the kiln-eyes are triangular above straight lower jambs and recede within to a small ground-level openings into main crucible. Main crucible is circular, tapering outwards from base to top and top platform is grassed with low parapet walls surviving on W and S sides.
A lime-kiln of unusual scale and quality, and one of the very few with the crucible still left open.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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