Lime kilns were used to burn limestone at high temperatures, producing quicklime that farmers spread across acidic soils to improve fertility, or that builders mixed into mortar. This one is substantial enough to have merited a mark on the 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, suggesting it served the local area for long enough to be considered a fixed feature of the land.

The kiln's front elevation faces south, measuring six metres high and roughly six metres wide, with a stone-arched recess at its base, a little over a metre and a half tall and just over two metres wide. This opening, known as the draw hole, is where the burnt lime would have been raked out once firing was complete. A ledge above the recess would have supported a lean-to structure, perhaps for shelter during loading or extraction. At the rear, stepped stones lead up to a small lintelled opening at the base, just sixty centimetres wide and barely more than a quarter of a metre high, almost certainly a draught vent to feed air into the burning chamber above. The rear of the structure has since become overgrown, which is common enough for kilns that fell out of use once cheap imported fertilisers arrived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.