Mill in Ballinavary, County Wexford

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Detached six-bay two-storey double-pile mill, extant 1853, on a square plan. In alternative use, 1868. Now in ruins. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof now missing, part creeper- or ivy-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond stepped eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone wall to front (east) elevation with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners; rendered surface finish (remainder). Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in shared grounds.

The shell of a mill erected by Messrs. C.S. Pownall and Company (----) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, '[a] fine building…eighty feet square [and] with [an] excellent upper storey' (Hickey alias Doyle 1868, 181), suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by red brick dressings producing a pleasing palette; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Although reduced to an ivy-enveloped ruin following a prolonged period of neglect, the elementary form and massing survive intact, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a mill forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside a nearby house (see 15702569) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement overlooking the Boro River.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15702568

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