Ivy has crept over the top of the stonework, reinforcing the impression of some minor ecclesiastical folly. It is, in fact, a lime kiln, a structure used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime for fertilising fields and mortaring walls. Someone, at some point, decided that a functional agricultural furnace was worth dressing up as a piece of romantic architecture, and the result is one of the more quietly peculiar agricultural survivals in the region.

The kiln was compiled and recorded by Denis Power, with details uploaded in August 2011. It sits atop an east-west ridge with extensive views in all directions, which would have made it a useful landmark as well as a working structure. The cylindrical body stands approximately eight metres high and measures just under six metres across above the base batter, all built from coursed limestone. On the north side, an arched opening roughly two and a half metres wide and two metres tall leads into the draw arch, the mouth through which spent lime and ash would have been raked out, narrowing as it goes back to a depth of around three metres and covered by downward-inclined lintels. That opening is now blocked with rubble at its base. On the west side, an earthen loading ramp about fifteen metres long and retained by limestone walls climbs to a doorway with a double-arched head, giving access to a small upper room where a circular funnel opening two metres in diameter once received the raw limestone and fuel from above. That funnel, too, is now entirely blocked.

The kiln sits in pasture, so access will depend on the landowner, and the surrounding farmland means the ground can be soft underfoot depending on the season. The ridge location means the structure is relatively exposed, and the ivy encasing the upper walls makes it easy to spot from a distance. The double-arched doorway at the top of the ramp and the twin-light windows are the details worth examining closely; they are the clearest sign that whoever built this had something more than pure utility in mind.