Survey Data
Reg No
31203021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
120260, 330108
Date Recorded
13/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay four-storey grain store or warehouse, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, part ivy- or moss-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone battered walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish with hammered or squared limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with rough hewn limestone lintels framing remains of timber boarded fittings. Set back from street in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A grain store or warehouse surviving as an interesting relic of the industrial heritage of Killala following the decline 'of its old time commercial prosperity…since the improvements to the channel allowed ships to proceed upstream to Ballina Quay' (ITA 1943). A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a grain store or warehouse making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in George's Street.