Survey Data
Reg No
12318037
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
270805, 143758
Date Recorded
17/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey warehouse, c.1850, originally attached on a slightly cranked plan with two-bay two-storey end bay to right having square-headed carriageway to ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1975. Part reroofed. Now disused. Pitched roofs with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1975, to main block having replacement corrugated-iron to end bay with iron ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets with replacement uPVC rainwater goods to end bay on squared rubble stone eaves. Unpainted rendered walls (possibly replacement, c.1975) over random rubble limestone construction with iron tie bars. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds supporting timber lintels, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, retaining remains of one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation having wrought iron bars. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door, c.1975. Square-headed carriageway to end bay with replacement timber boarded double doors, c.1975. Road fronted on a sloping site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A middle-size warehouse representing an important element of the industrial heritage of Graiguenamanagh having traditionally supported the local agricultural economy: the warehouse forms a neat self-contained group with further ranges in High Street (12318036, 8/KK-29-18-36, 8) representing the unofficial industrial quarter of the town. Despite extensive renovation works in the late twentieth century combined with the subsequent decommissioning of the site the original composition attributes survive substantially intact as characterised by the regular pattern of small-scale openings producing an austere, almost monolithic quality in the streetscape.