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Mill in Burrellspark

Mill (water)
Mill in Burrellspark
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Originally mill (water); recorded by the architectural inventory as house
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Corn mill complex, c.1775, including:(i) Detached four-bay two-storey over basement mill with half-attic. Extended, c.1850, comprising five-bay two-storey parallel range along rear (south) elevation forming single-bay two-storey recessed end bay to right. Decommissioned, pre-1948. In use as offices, post-1948.…

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Corn mill complex, c.1775, including:(i) Detached four-bay two-storey over basement mill with half-attic. Extended, c.1850, comprising five-bay two-storey parallel range along rear (south) elevation forming single-bay two-storey recessed end bay to right. Decommissioned, pre-1948. In use as offices, post-1948. Renovated, c.1975, with some openings remodelled. In use as gallery, pre-2002. Extensively renovated, 2002, to accommodate continued residential use. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Random rubble limestone walls to original block with cut-limestone quoins to corners, iron tie bars, and painted replacement rendered walls, 2002, to additional range. Camber-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.1975) with no sills (some having chamfered sills), tooled cut-limestone voussoirs (rendered voussoirs to additional range), and replacement timber fittings, 2002. Round-headed door opening with tiled step, tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having rock-faced cut-limestone voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Interior retaining vaulting to basement, and timber floors to upper floors. Set back from road in own grounds.
An attractive substantial range forming an important artefact of the mid to late eighteenth-century industrial legacy of Thomastown. Although having been decommissioned by the mid twentieth century, sympathetic restoration works in the course of adapting the complex to an alternative use have included the retention of most of the original composition qualities together with some of the early fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining the character or integrity of the site. Positioned overlooking the River Nore, the building presents a picturesque landmark enhancing the aesthetic value of the locality. The mill remains of additional importance for the connections with the Somerville-Large and the Lawlor families.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12317081

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