Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln
Cosheston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Jenkins Point
- Town
- Pembroke Dock
- Community
- Cosheston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71591, -4.88458
- Cadw reference
- 17269
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 2 km N of Cosheston Village, at the right side of the road approaching Ferry House and about 100 m from the shore of the estuary.
History
A kiln of mid-C19 date intended for burning limestone brought ashore via Jenkins Point. Probably post-1840, as it is not marked on the Tithe Survey.
Exterior
A well-preserved small limekiln about 5.5 m in diameter externally and about 3.5 m high, standing beside the road on the W side. A ramp leads up from the roadside at the N, and the bank behind the ramp is revetted. The kiln has opposed openings at the N and S, with neatly corbelled archways. The archway at the N is capped with a short lintel, the archway at the S lacks its lintel but is otherwise complete. Neatly formed curved retaining wing walls at N and S.
Interior
The interior diameter of the kiln is about 3 m and there does not appear to have been any firebrick lining.
Reason for designation
Listed as a particularly well-preserved small mid-C19 limekilne.
Nearby in the register
- Lawrenny QuayTransportunder 1 mi
- Benton CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St CaradocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Caradoc Churchyard GatewayReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.