Survey Data
Reg No
14944010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Miller's house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
199201, 185806
Date Recorded
03/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey miller's house, built c.1850, with lean-to single-storey porch to northern gable. Set within its own grounds with derelict mill to north. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to corrugated iron roof to rear porch. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled stone eaves course and replacement rainwater goods. Timber sash window with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with spoked timber fanlight and replacement timber panelled door with stone step. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to rear with new glazed timber doors. Ruinous two-storey outbuilding to rear with external stone steps to gable. Walled garden to south with random coursed walls, accessed from front site through timber battened door and from north through segmental-headed carriage arch opening. Derelict mill and yard to north. Circular-profile stone gate piers access garden to front site with wrought-iron gate. Circular-profile stone piers with wrought-iron gate access driveway to front site. Wrought-iron gate set between north gable of house and south gable of adjacent mill, accessing rear yard. Bridge straddling stream which cuts driveway, having roughly hewn voussoirs, no parapets and cobbles to surface. Square-profile rendered gate piers to road with wrought-iron gate and rendered caps.
Appraisal
Set back from the road, the recently conserved former miller's house has a great deal of character. Its hipped roof and sash windows are typical features of nineteenth-century domestic design in Ireland and give the structure architectural merit. Encased in ivy, the house is tranquil and visually attractive. Its rear walled garden, ruinous outbuilding, gate piers and gates all contribute to the site. A notable element is the low bridge that straddles a stream bisecting the avenue. Its rustic design, incorporating roughly hewn voussoirs and cobbled surface, further enhance the setting.