mill (water)

Flour mill complex, pre-1840, including:Detached two-bay three-storey rubble stone mill with two-bay single-storey wing to left having square-headed carriageway to left. In use as creamery, 1902. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods surviving on squared limestone eaves. Part ivy-clad random rubble limestone walls with traces of unpainted render over, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs to ground floor (probably forming single-arch (segmental) culvert over mill race). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber lintels, and remains of timber fittings having wrought iron bars. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and painted corrugated-iron fitting. Square-headed carriageway to wing with timber lintel, and no fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

One of an attractive collection of rubble stone buildings forming an assemblage also known as Castle Mill a middle-size range represents an important element of the industrial heritage of Urlingford having been established as a flour mill, later operating as a creamery in the early twentieth century. Although now long disused the retention of the original form and massing together with much of the early fabric maintains the important contribution the site makes to the historic character of the landscape.