Survey Data
Reg No
15701903
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Mill (water)
Date
1800 - 1835
Coordinates
288995, 143678
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Mill complex, established 1832, including (north): Attached two-bay two-storey mill with half-attic on a square plan. Hipped gabled slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Fine roughcast battered walls with concealed cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Pair of square-headed door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded half-doors. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Interior retaining timber boarded floors on timber joists on timber beams on timber posts; (south): Attached four-bay two-storey farmhouse on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cornices below truncated pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A mill established by Robert Farrell (Hogg 2000, 129) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched near-pyramidal roofline. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including an overshot waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.