Survey Data
Reg No
15611003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
319029, 156588
Date Recorded
08/01/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay three-storey double-pile mill, extant 1840, on a square plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile on a rectangular plan. In use, 1911. Now in ruins. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) roof with fragments of slate finish, part creeper or ivy-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick quoins to corners; mass concrete walls (top floor). Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Interior in ruins. Set in overgrown grounds.
Appraisal
The shell of a mill representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of north County Wexford. Although reduced to ruins following a prolonged period of neglect, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric including the framework of a waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan setting.