Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln Close to Beach
Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 17 November 1994
- Locality
- Pwllgwaelod
- Community
- Dinas Cross
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02125, -4.90830
- Cadw reference
- 14952
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 in car-park some 50 m SE of Sailors Safety Inn, by public toilets.
History
Earlier C19 limekiln typical of those built all along the coasts for burning limestone imported onto beaches from South Pembrokeshire.
Exterior
Rubble stone, circular with 2 triangular headed kiln-eyes to SE and NW, partly infilled crucible. Rubble stone retaining walls each to side.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Dewi FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwm Dewi FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brynhenllan ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Brynhenllan CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.