Survey Data
Reg No
31301421
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Creamery
Date
1955 - 1960
Coordinates
117187, 331361
Date Recorded
31/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey creamery, built 1957. Disused, 2008. For sale, 2011. Pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles centred on rendered dwarf chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing steel casement windows. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping.
Appraisal
A creamery erected by the Palmerstown Farmers' Cooperative (PFC) regarded as an interesting component of the twentieth-century industrial architectural heritage of the rural environs of Killala.