Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lime Kiln
Minera, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 22 April 1998
- Locality
- The Wern
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Minera
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04509, -3.08319
- Cadw reference
- 19726
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 50m N of Penymynydd, on a minor road W off the B5426 opposite Wern Farm.
History
Early C19 lime kiln. Probably too small to be associated with the mid-late C19 industrial scale quarrying and burning of lime in Minera.
Exterior
Square lime kiln of shaped rubble stone some 3m high and 6m wide built into slope of hill. SE side has large asymetric kiln eye with stone arch. Eye is some 2m high and 2m deep and inclines to the left. Crucible filled in but visible but kiln walls in deteriorating condition especially to left (1997).
Reason for designation
Listed as the only surviving example in the area of a early C19 small lime kiln, preceeding the industrial scale lime burning later in the century.
Nearby in the register
- Wern FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Jones CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- GwylfaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.