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mill (water) — Kells

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Flour mill complex, established 1782, including:(i) Detached four-bay three-storey rubble stone flour mill possibly incorporating fabric of earlier mill, 1204-6, with two-bay single-storey projecting bay to left ground floor, single-bay three-storey return to north-east leading to single-bay two-storey return block with attic to east, and two-bay two-storey lean-to infill mill manager's house to south-east. In use as corn mill, 1948. Part refenestrated, pre-1969. Restored, 1997, to accommodate use as heritage centre. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to mill manager's house) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, rooflights, and iron rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with waterwheel to side (south) elevation over mill race, square apertures to eaves level, and dressed rubble stone buttress to return block. Square-headed window openings with no sills, red brick voussoirs, and three-over-six timber sash windows having some replacement timber casement windows, pre-1969, to mill manager's house. Square-headed door opening to first floor with red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed door opening to mill manager's house under gabled slate canopy on timber brackets with glazed timber panelled door. Interior with timber boarded floors on timber beams supported on timber posts retaining iron mechanisms to each floor. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and mill race to south having random rubble stone retaining walls.(ii) Detached two-bay two-storey rubble stone flax mill, built 1782, to south. Closed, 1966. In residential use, post-1966. Renovated, 1997, to accommodate use as offices. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, red brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone step, red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded door.

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