Survey Data
Reg No
15702607
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1825 - 1830
Coordinates
297024, 136431
Date Recorded
08/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay (three-bay deep) four-storey mill, built 1826, on a rectangular plan originally two-bay (three-bay deep) six-storey. Disused, 1903. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing remains of eight-over-eight timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Interior in ruins. Set back from line of road in shared grounds.
Appraisal
The shell of a mill erected by Francis Davis Senior (1777-1863) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of County Wexford (Bassett 1885, 291) with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in a blue-green fieldstone with red brick dressings producing a mild polychromatic palette; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor.