| Summary : Lime works built by Samuel Oldknow in 1797-1800. There is a bank of three lime kilns with Gothic Style windows set in the facade, situated on the East side of the Peak Forest Canal and South of Lime Kiln Lane. The kilns were tunnelled into the hillside, are 11m deep, and were loaded from the canal basin at the top, and unloaded from bottom grates by a series of stone-lined tunnels 6-40m long. Nearby was a mineral mill, producing plaster of paris. A nearby farmhouse was the original dispatch building. The site was worked until the early 20th century. |
More information : (SJ 962884) Lime Works (Disused) (NAT). (1)
SJ 963884. Lime works on the east side of the Peak Forest Canal
near the top of the locks at Marple, were built by Samual Oldknow
in 1797-1800.
The kilns, 38ft/11m deep, were loaded from the canal basin at the
top and unloaded from bottom grates by a series of stone lined
tunnels 20-100ft/6-40m long, then run out by wagon to transit
buildings for loading on to road carts or boats. Coal from the
nearby pit was used. Traces of former dwellings above the tunnel
entrances have Gothic tracery in windows. The site was worked until
the early 20th century and the kilns are "now 'preserved' but almost
out of recognition". (2)
Limekilns. 1797 for Samuel Oldknow. Dressed sandstone. Total of
4 concaved bays which act as a retaining wall and gave access to
the kilns which were tunnelled into the hillside. Grade II. Lime
Kiln Farm, No 30 Strines Road, limestone dispatch building used to
load burnt lime from kilns onto mule-drawn wagons, now a house.
Grade II. No 32 Strines Road, farmhouse, now house 1797 for Samuel
Oldknow. Grade II (for full description see list). (3)
SJ 964884. Oldknow's Limekilns, Strines Road. Scheduled. (4)
The lime kilns are shown but not described at SJ 96298845 on
OS 1:2500 1972. (5)
Documented. (6)
Recorded as part of the National Record of Industrial Project. It includs a sketch of the kilns. The tunnels and rooms are fully described. (7) |