Survey Data
Reg No
41309016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill manager's house
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
293763, 306781
Date Recorded
04/03/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey miller's house, built c.1810, as part of Inishkeen Mills corn and flax mill complex, having gabled porch to front (south) elevation. Single-storey rear elevation, due to rising ground level. Now derelict. Pitched roof missing, gables surviving with rendered end chimneystack with clay chimneypots. Recent temporary flat timber roof with corrugated-metal sheeting. Red brick header course at eaves level to front and rear elevations. Pitched slate roof with decorative timber bargeboards to entrance porch. Rubble stone walls with partial remains of roughcast lime render. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Windows boarded, some remains of timber sliding sash windows evident. Patent reveals to front windows. House attached to watermill at its east end with associated mill buildings forming yard, between River Fane to south and millrace to north. Bridge at site entrance, having rendered parapet walls.
Appraisal
Although now derelict this house retains much of its original character and is an integral element of the mill complex. It shares scale and some construction details with the immediately adjoining watermill building, yet through composition and detailing its domestic character is evident. The approach to the house and complex over two small bridges signifies the industry's reliance on natural resources, specifically the water supply. The house, through its association with the mill, is of social importance to the village of Inishkeen, and is a visual reminder of the importance of the flax industry in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Ulster.