Survey Data
Reg No
15701408
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Historical Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Mill (tread)
Date
1760 - 1765
Coordinates
286394, 146478
Date Recorded
24/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay three- or four-storey mill with half-attic, dated 1761, on a rectangular plan with single-bay full-height side elevations. In alternative use, 1901-1921. Reroofed, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Replacement hipped corrugated-iron roof with pressed iron ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast battered walls with concealed cut-granite flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site.
Appraisal
A mill representing an important component of the mid eighteenth-century industrial heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one erected by a now unknown miller ("IN"), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the centralised openings on each floor. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including an overshot waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.