Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/15/027

Address :
Lime kiln at Glenville 101 Lurgan road Glenavy Crumlin Co Antrim

Townland:
Ballyvollen

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Rural Industry

Former Use
Rural Industry

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
145/1

IG Ref:
J1329 7272

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A basalt rubble and boulder structure built into the side of a hillock. Battered front faces angled back slightly to each side of a deeply recessed opening with splayed reveals. Four stages of corbelled lintels are corbelled out over the small opening hole at ground level which has a large lintel. The top is covered over with earth and surface growth to such an extent that no trace of the charging hole is visible. Mature trees have taken root in the front of the structure. SETTING: The structure stands in a very rural area, on sloping ground surrounded by trees and bushes in a field to the side of a house, Glenville (HB20/15/017).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but it may date from before the time of the present house, which appears on the OS map of 1858, and was probably used to provide lime for the building of earlier buildings on the site. Not indicated on the earlier OS maps, of 1832, 1858, or 1901, but shown on the map of 1965-7. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map of 1965-6, Plan 145-1.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of a once-common type of structure which is still very numerous and is usually, as in this case, in derelict condition.

General Comments

Date of Survey

14 February 1999