NHER 16508 (Monument record) - Post-medieval lime kiln and quarry pits in the garden of Fourways

Post-medieval lime kiln located in the garden of Fourways (NHER 44316)
Listed Grade II

1980. Visit.
Formerly filled with rubbish and excavated by informant.
The kiln has a square plan tunnel with tuilieres rising from the roof, which is simple vaulted.
Base of walls flint and random brick, upper part and vault thin red bricks.
Bell has limechute each side with sloping brick ramp, and hole each side apparently for stirring lime though stated to be for holding candles. Perhaps latter function utilised when holes closed.
Brick floor to tunnel. Interior of bell filled with earth.
Entrance formerly by curving staircase.
One corner of tunnel has collapsed and is sealed off.
To right of entrance a round-vaulted recess in yellow brick has a tuiliere and apparently a hearth-like end; brick quoins to main tunnel.
This may be a remnant of an earlier kiln but is very odd.
It is now used to display many bottles found in filling of kiln.
There is said to have been another kiln on the other side.
Embankment - for a plateway and incline? - approaches kiln on east.
Large chalk pits to north.
Former whiting works here is marked on 1883 Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 22 August 1980.

(S2) state that this kiln was probably begun in the 1830s. Suggests the arched room was a lime store, but this seems too simple an explanation for the detail. The limechute grilles are like giant forks on handles.