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Description: | Near Station Road is a block of 4 brick-built kilns, adjacent to disused railway, platform and sidings. A substantial kiln block survives, although only one kiln could be identified within it. In 1978 there was a trackway to the kiln tops, disused crushers and hoppers to the east side - little of this survives. An office building and weighbridge still stand by the road. According to Williams, the kilns had iron grates and a stepped roof leading to the draw holes. There are no remains of a second block of 4 kilns to the south, near limestone quarry floor and used in the 1950s, nor of a crusher, to the north east and in use in 1978 (using imported lime), nor of the hydration plant to the south and in use in 1978 (using imported lime). The quarry is a large open pit, but has no distinctive features. {1}
The lime kiln stands on the edge of a now disused limestone quarry. It is built of brick and is seven metres in height. There is one charging hole visible on the top and one discharge hole at the lower end of the east elevation. The west and south sides are built into the earth access bank. There were ten kilns within this quarry, six built when it opened, including this lone surviving one, and an additional four built in the quarry bottom in the late 1930s. A pair of kilns is shown on this precise location on the 1904 Ordnance Survey map. Although now there is only a single charging hole on the top which can be seen, the staggered eastern edge of the kilns shown on the map is apparent. There was no quarry here until after the construction of the railway line between Bourne and Saxby but working started soon after the railway opened in 1893. The kilns were last used in the 1960s and the quarry closed in 1985. {2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1800 - 1960 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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