Survey Data
Reg No
22110039
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Theatre/opera house/concert hall
Date
1790 - 1795
Coordinates
221086, 134929
Date Recorded
03/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay five-storey former flour mill built 1791, now in use as theatre, with double-height lean-to extension to north elevation, slightly-recessed two-bay triple-height flat-roof twentieth-century extension and two-bay single-storey pitched extension to south elevation. Pitched slate roofs, with brick chimneystacks, limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins and having carved date plaque to west wall of pitched roof addition. Segmental-arch window openings with brick voussoirs and replacement timber casement windows and timber battened shutters, having limestone sills to ground floor. Segmental-headed door opening with chamfered dressed limestone surround with keystone dated 1847 and brick voussoirs above. French burr millstones to site.
Appraisal
This imposing former mill has happily found a new use, as a theatre. Sympathetically restored, it retains some early fabric such as the carved stone doorcase with the interesting initialled keystone. The brick voussoirs and large limestone quoins serve to enhance and emphasise the structure and form of the building. It serves as an interesting reminder of the industrial heritage of Fethard.