Listed Building: LIME KILN (381927)

PORTLAND SY67SE EASTON LANE, Easton 969-1/1/34 (East side) 27/11/84 Lime Kiln (Formerly Listed as: EASTON STREET No.2) II Lime kiln and attached outbuilding. C19. Coursed rubble, corrugated iron roof. A prominent half-cylindrical kiln built into the roadside bank, with a low single-storey lean-to range aross the front. The kiln rises c 4m from pavement level, and is c 3.5m wide, with flat plain front over an opening to large quoins, the hearth in a brick segmental vault filling an earlier opening. The back of the kiln is semi-circular, built into the slope, with plain stone-on-edge parapet wall. Attached lean-to is c 10m long and 1.75m high at front; wide trimmed opening to kiln front, and a door to left giving to room with stone sett floor. Although abandoned, and in poor condition, this is of historic interest as a substantial remaining kiln on the island. Listing NGR: SY6907572440

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Aug 19 2014 12:04PM