Survey Data
Reg No
12318038
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
In Use As
Mill (water)
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
270785, 143762
Date Recorded
17/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced eight-bay three-storey warehouse, c.1850, originally attached with square-headed carriageway to ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1975, with some window openings remodelled. Now in use as woollen mill. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1975, on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Unpainted rendered walls (possibly replacement, c.1975) over random rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled to left first floor, c.1975) with cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1975. Square-headed carriageway to ground floor with iron lintel, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled accordion doors, c.1975. Road fronted on a sloping site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A large-scale warehouse forming an important element of the industrial heritage of Graiguenamanagh having traditionally supported much of the local agricultural economy: the warehouse forms a neat self-contained group with further ranges in High Street (12318036 - 7/KK-29-18-36 - 7) representing the unofficial industrial quarter of the town. Despite extensive renovation works in the late twentieth century the original form and massing of the composition survive substantially intact as characterised by the regular distribution of small-scale openings producing an austere, almost monolithic quality in the streetscape.