Survey Data
Reg No
40818035
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
219377, 426606
Date Recorded
30/01/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Attached single-bay three-storey former store or warehouse associated with former corn mill, built c. 1860. Now out of use\in use as outbuilding. Pitched corrugated roof, now collapsing, having projecting stone eaves course. Rubble stone walls. Pulley mechanism over opening at second floor level. Central square-headed window openings\loading bays, now blocked. Central square-headed doorway, now blocked, having timber lintel over. Road-fronted to the south-east of the centre of Milford. Attached two-storey out buildings to either side (north-west and south-east).
Appraisal
This unassuming but substantial former warehouse or store, probably dating to the mid-nineteenth century, retains much of its original form and character despite being now out of use. It is robustly built using local rubble stone masonry, and its tall three-storey gable-fronted form gives it an imposing presence in the streetscape to the south-east of the centre of Milford. The pulley mechanism over the upper floor openings was used to pull sacks of grain or produce up to the openings at first and second floor level. It was probably originally associated with former corn mills (now demolished) that were formerly located to the north side of the stream to the north of the site. It dates to a period when Milford was a prosperous market town under the proprietorship of the Earls of Leitrim of Mulroy House. The Fourth Earl built a town hall (see 40818022) and corn market to the centre of Milford during the 1880s. This imposing if utilitarian structure is an interesting historical relic dating from this period when Milford was a centre of the local corn milling industry, and is an interesting feature in the streetscape to the south-east of the centre of the town. Sensitively restored and altered for a new use, it would add significantly to the streetscape along the main approach road into the town from the south-east.