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Detached five-bay three-storey mill with half-attic, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1985. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement hipped gabled artificial slate roof on collared timber construction with ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slightly overhanging slate or stone flagged eaves.…

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Detached five-bay three-storey mill with half-attic, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1985. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement hipped gabled artificial slate roof on collared timber construction with ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slightly overhanging slate or stone flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates. Pair of square-headed door openings with rough hewn granite lintels framing timber boarded half-doors. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and rough hewn granite lintels framing timber casement windows having vertical glazing bars. Interior including timber boarded floors on timber joists on timber beams on timber posts. Set in shared grounds.
A mill representing an important component of the late nineteenth-century industrial heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding an adjacent mill included in the Valuation Office Revision Books (1845), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roofline. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including the framework of a breastshot waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making an imposing visual statement overlooking the Urrin River. NOTE: Operated (1901; 1911) by Mark Browne (----), 'Farmer [and] Miller' (NA 1901; NA 1911).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15701934

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