Lime kilns were industrial furnaces used to convert raw limestone into quicklime by burning it at high temperature, the resulting material being essential for mortar, whitewash, and agricultural land improvement. This one is modest in scale but coherent in construction, and the fact that it sits immediately adjacent to its limestone source gives a clear sense of the self-contained logic that governed small rural industry.

The kiln is built from random-rubble limestone walls encasing an earthen core, a common approach that kept construction straightforward while retaining heat effectively. Its front elevation faces west and incorporates a lintelled recess, though the lintel itself has since been removed, and steps down to a lintelled opening at the base measuring 1.1 metres wide. This lower opening, known as the draw hole, was where workers raked out the burnt lime once firing was complete. The funnel above, where limestone and fuel were loaded from the top, measures 1.9 metres in diameter and is lined with brick for approximately 1.5 metres of its upper section, with the remainder stone lined. The use of brick in the upper funnel suggests either a repair or an improvement at some point, brick being more resistant to the intense, repeated heat at that level than ordinary field stone.