Listed Building record MDO17897 - Lime kiln at Bucknowle, Church Knowle

A lime kiln recorded as ‘old limekiln’ on the 1900 and 1926 Ordnance Survey maps, ‘limkiln’ on the 2006 O/S map but is not shown on the Tithe map. The kiln was partly built into a bank so that the kiln head was below or level with the quarry floor to facilitate loading. The lime burner's shelter at this kiln is a unique ‘bothy’ with Gothic window and a fireplace built within the structure. It was visited by Peter Stanier in 1992-3 who found it to be complete and in very good condition.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

English Heritage, 1997, Monuments Protection Programme, Step 3 report: Lime, Cement and Plaster, Dorset 5 (Unpublished document). SDO17766.

'Field kiln with associated features. The kiln is rectangular in plan and built of roughly coursed stone. The face stands c. 5m high and contains a round headed brick draw arch with a single stone/brick lined draw eye. A line of joist holes along the front indicate that there was formerly a lime shed here. Within the kiln block, at the west end, there is a small room which served as a lime burner's shelter with a gothic arched door and window. Internally, it has a brick barrel vaulted roof and a a fireplace in one corner, with a low stone bench along one side. The pot is circular, brick lined and covered with an iron grille. The top of the kiln is level with the quarry base to the north. An earth ramp appears to run up to the top of the kiln on either side. The kiln was restored in 1987 by the Ramblers's Association and the Dorset Countryside Volunteers.'

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