Survey Data
Reg No
15605084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Malt house
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
271707, 127210
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Archival Description [Demolished ----]: Detached six-bay (twelve-bay deep) six-storey double hipped gable-fronted malthouse, dated 1875, on a rectangular plan. Disused, 2007. Double hipped gable-fronted (north) and pitched (south) slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble stone walls with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates. Square-headed window openings with concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing remains of timber boarded fittings behind wrought iron bars. Lane fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
Archival Appraisal [Demolished ----]: A malthouse erected by Patrick James Roche (1818-1905) of Woodville House (see 15702908) representing an important component of the later nineteenth-century industrial heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a malthouse making an imposing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in Priory Lane.