Survey Data

Reg No

22400425


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Kiln


Date

1930 - 1960


Coordinates

187723, 204934


Date Recorded

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Date Updated

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Description

Group of detached sawmill buildings, built c.1945. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, one with metal chimneystack. One building with concrete walls, others with timber clapboard sides. Timber drying kilns and boiler to concrete-walled building, open storage and sawing workshops to others. Kiln building has rare steel locking mechanisms to doors. Timber clapboard office to southwest with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Four-bay two-storey house to northeast with pitched slate roof, two-over-two pane and some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Complex sited adjacent to inland harbour to and from which goods were transported along River Shannon.

Appraisal

An interesting and relatively rare sawmill and timber proceesing complex of the mid-twentieth century. The walling of most of the buildings is unsually of timber clapboard. The door locks to the kilns are a particularly rare survival and make this an industrial grouping of special significance.