Description

SX 0351 NE ST AUSTELL WITH FOWEY CHARLESTOWN

868/4/10001 Former Gun Shed and
attached lime kilns

GV II

Gun shed. c1804-5, built to house 18-pounder guns from the cliff
battery (q.v.). Coursed stone rubble with brick right gable-end;
gabled slate roof. Rectangular plan with ground-floor store for
guns and first-floor carpenters' shop. 2 storeys; 4-window
range. 3/2 pane sashes of 1991 with brick jambs to first floor;
semi-circular-arched opening to left, timber lintel over opening
with brick jambs to right; 4 buttresses. Left gable end has
steps to loft door and timber lintels over flanking 3/3-pane
sashes. Interior: heavy beams; cobbled floor; king-post roof.
Subsidiary features; limekilns (on 1825 estate map) attached to
right end and at right angles to rear left, built of squared
granite blocks with chamfered coping to retaining walls, and
keyed brick arches to kilns, that left adjoining sawpit. The
kilns are of an unusually grand scale and flank a rare example
of a gun shed of the Napoleonic era.

Listing NGR: SX0377351711

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507536

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