Survey Data
Reg No
15702556
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1700 - 1777
Coordinates
293864, 135609
Date Recorded
20/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three- or four-bay two-storey mill with attic, extant 1777, on a rectangular plan. In use, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed fine roughcast wall to front (east) elevation; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed openings (first floor) with concealed dressings framing louvered fittings. Interior including timber boarded floors on timber joists on timber beams on timber posts. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber double gates.
Appraisal
A mill representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Wexford. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior where an array of machinery pinpoints the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a rural street scene.