Survey Data
Reg No
11901808
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
275700, 217982
Date Recorded
21/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay three-storey double-pile rubble stone water mill, c.1800, with three-bay three-storey side elevation to east. Now in ruins. Gable-ended double-pile (M-profile) roof. Roof covering now missing. Rubble stone walls (partly collapsed to north elevation). Dressed stone quoins to corners. Mill wheel now missing. Shallow segmental-headed window openings. No sills. Red brick heads. Fittings now missing. Interior now in ruins with floors missing. Traces of render to internal walls. Set back from road in grounds adjacent to Grand Canal (Milltown Branch). Remains of mill race to site. Now dried up.
Appraisal
Milltown Mill (former) is a fine example of an early nineteenth-century medium-scale industrial centre that, although in ruins, retains much of its original dramatic presence - the complex is attractively adjacent to the Grand Canal (Milltown Branch) and is an picturesque feature in the area. The mill building is a fine and imposing rubble stone structure that includes small openings necessary for maintaining a cool, dry environment. Many of the original features and fittings are now lost, including the fittings to the openings, internal floors and the roof structure, while the original waterwheel is also now gone. The evidence of the now-dried mill race is also of some technical interest. The mill building is of considerable historical and social interest, having once been a major employer in the region.