Survey Data
Reg No
11810055
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Malt house
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
266569, 219073
Date Recorded
12/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached thirteen-bay four-storey rubble stone malt house, c.1800, with four-bay four-storey advanced portion to north-east and two-bay four-storey side elevation to south-west. Now in ruins. Roof now gone (originally hipped gabled). Rubble stone walls. Dressed stone quoins to corners. Cut-stone course to eaves. Shallow segmental-headed openings (including door openings to each floor). No sills. Yellow brick dressings. Projecting stones to door openings forming platforms. Fittings now gone. Interior now in ruins. Timber panelled shutters to some window openings. Set back from road in own grounds.
Appraisal
Annsboro Maltings is a large rubble stone building of much character that is of considerable social and historical interest, representing the early industrialisation of Rathangan following the establishment of the Grand Canal in the locality in the late eighteenth century. Now disused and in ruins, the malt house is a picturesque feature in the locality. The construction in rubble stone with brick dressings is representative of the traditional method of building in the early nineteenth century. The building retains some important early features and fittings to the interior spaces, including timber panelled shutters to some window openings.