Cassidy and Company

Attached eight-bay two-storey rubble stone warehouse, c.1820, on a cranked plan retaining some early fittings to openings. Now disused and mostly collapsed to four-bay section to north-east. Remains of gable-ended roof (originally on a cranked plan) with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Exposed timber rafters. Rainwater goods now gone. Random rubble stone walls (now mostly collapsed to four-bay section to north-east). Square-headed openings (including door opening to first floor). No sills. Yellow brick dressings. Timber boarded double doors (fittings now gone in four-bay section to north-east). Set back from road in grounds shared with distillery buildings.

This building, although now disused and mostly collapsed to the four-bay section to north-east, is of considerable social and historical importance, attesting to the industrialisation of Monasterevin in the early nineteenth century. Built as a monumental range of solid wall masses pierced by diminutive openings (in accordance with a structure that was required to be cool and dry for the storage of grain), the building blends attractively with the neighbouring structures of earlier and later dates. The building retains some important early features and materials, including simple timber boarded doors and a slate covering to roof, which is in need of repair. The warehouse forms an attractive feature in the former Cassidy’s Distillery complex.