Abymill Theatre

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.

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.