Buttermill House

Attached eight-bay three-storey over part-raised basement rubble stone butter mill, c.1790, on a U-shaped plan comprising four-bay three-storey central block with two-bay three-storey projecting flanking end bays having four-bay three-storey side elevations. Now disused and derelict. Hipped slate roofs on a U-shaped plan over timber construction (now partly collapsed) with clay ridge tiles, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered rubble stone stepped eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Round-headed window openings with stone sills, and rubble stone voussoirs. Remains of timber windows with some openings now blocked-up with random rubble stone. Round-headed door openings with rubble stone voussoirs, and timber boarded doors. Interior now derelict with some floors partly collapsed. Set back from road in own grounds with part-overgrown grounds to site, and random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

A robust, muscular building on a compact plan that is of significance as evidence of a component of the industrial legacy of Lismore. Although now disused, and in an advanced derelict state, the mill building retains most of the original form and massing, together with evidence of much of the original fittings and materials. The mill building remains an important element of the townscape on the outskirts of Lismore, and presents a feature of some Romantic quality in the landscape.