Survey Data
Reg No
15701204
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1841 - 1904
Coordinates
315870, 156286
Date Recorded
08/02/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Saw mill complex, post-1841, retaining fabric of earlier corn mill complex, extant 1835/40, including: Attached three-bay two-storey mill manager's or mill owner's house on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch to ground floor with single-bay two-storey side (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roof on collared timber construction partly collapsed with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on part creeper-covered rendered eaves. Hipped glazed roof to porch in timber frame with carved timber "Torus" ridges rising to finial to apex. Part creeper-covered lime rendered walls over semi-coursed random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to porch with shallow sill course on rendered riser, and timber mullions framing fixed-pane (six-light) timber window. Round- or segmental-headed door opening into house with timber panelled door having overlight. Interior retaining timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in own grounds with unkempt grounds to site [OS].
Appraisal
SA: A derelict saw mill complex identified as an integral component of the industrial architectural legacy of the rural environs of Gorey having been reconstructed in the later nineteenth century not only as the successor to, but most likely retaining the basis of the earlier corn mill (extant 1840) displaying a comparable footprint on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (published 1841).