Part of it is a Scheduled Monument,[1] and it is part of the Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Site of Special Scientific Interest[2] and Special Area of Conservation.

[3] Digging on this former chalk quarry continued on the site until 1936.

It had two batteries of lime kilns, which have become roosting sites for bats.

Some of the floor of the quarry has become species rich chalk grassland, with plants such as broad-leaved helleborine and pyramidal, common spotted, fragrant and bee orchids.

From 1962 the limeworks was home to the Brockham Railway Museum, a collection of narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock.