Description

SX 26 SW LISKEARD RURAL MOORSWATER

10/63 Limekiln

II

Limekiln with water wheel to rear, disused, circa mid C19. Rubblestone with cut
stone round arches to openings on front, north east and to sides on north west and
south east. Flat top. Rectangular plan with East Looe River running to rear.
Openings into 2 cylindrical chambers have deeply splayed reveals. Chamber
openings blocked. Rubblestone dividing wall to rear appears later. Entrance on
right. Partition for machinery including water wheel on rear. Remains of
undershot water wheel and gear driving a winch which was used to haul waggons
containing limestone and culm up a tramroad incline to the top of the limekiln.
Winch, friction drive, remains of brake and part of wheel extinct. At time of
inspection much overgrown.
Sources; measured drawing of Moorswater limekiln by Martin Watts in National
Monuments Record measured drawings collection.

Listing NGR: SX2358564150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432850

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey