Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lime kilns at Penymynydd
Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 12 December 2003
- Locality
- Heol Pedair
- Community
- Llangyndeyrn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76227, -4.26240
- Cadw reference
- 82286
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
On the S side of a minor road approximately 800m WNW of the crossroads in Heol Pedair.
History
The first of the bank of kilns were built in the 1870s to serve the quarry immediately to the S. The 1888 Ordnance Survey shows 3 kilns, with 2 more added on the NE side by the time of the 1906 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A bank of 5 tall lime kilns (overgrown at the time of inspection), of which the central is set back, built against a steep bank. Battered walls are of rubble stone, except the earlier 2 on the R (W) side which are of rock-faced stone. Draw arches have segmental tunnel vaults.
Reason for designation
Listed as an impressive bank of late C19 lime kilns, from a period when the scale of the industry was rapidly expanding.
Scheduled Ancient Monument CM 277(CAM).
Nearby in the register
- Limekilns at Penymynydd, Pedair HeolLimekilnunder 1 mi
- Group of Standing Stones NE of LlechdwnniStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Old house at LlechdwnniDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lime-kiln facing S, on ridge E of Capel HorebIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.