Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln to SW of Old Castle Farm
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08462, -4.67936
- Cadw reference
- 10549
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on East bank of River Teifi, by high water mark, some 50m SW of Old Castle Farmhouse.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Old Castle MoundRingworkunder 1 mi
- Princess VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llys TeifyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mount PleasantDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.