Ennisnag House

Detached five-bay two-storey over part-raised basement mill owner's house, c.1850, probably incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site. Refenestrated, c.1925. Reroofed, c.1950. Mostly refenestrated. Now in private residential use. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, to ground floor. Round-headed door opening in round-headed concave recess approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps having wrought iron railings, limestone ashlar Doric doorcase having engaged columns supporting entablature, archivolt, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone rounded coping, dressed limestone piers having cut-limestone stepped capping supporting ball finials, and iron double gates.

An elegantly-composed substantial house incorporating pleasing Classically-derived proportions centred on a pretty doorcase displaying high quality stone masonry. Despite a number of renovation projects the original composition attributes survive largely intact together with a quantity of the early fabric, thereby maintaining some of the historic character of the site. Of additional significance as an important element of the industrial heritage of County Kilkenny the house contributes significantly to the group and setting values of the Ennisnag Flour Mill complex.