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Fairbrook House — NEWTOWN (MID. BY.) KILMEADAN PAR.

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Fairbrook House — NEWTOWN (MID. BY.) KILMEADAN PAR.
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Detached seven-bay two-storey rubble stone mill with half-attic, established 1776, with segmental-headed carriageway to left ground floor, single-bay two-storey side elevations, and single-bay two-storey lean-to lower return to east. Converted to use as paper mill, c.1815. Converted to use as woollen mill, 1820. Decommissioned, c.1920. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to return) with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, post-1999, on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, sections of red brick Running bond, and red brick quoins to corners. Camber-headed window openings to ground and to first floor (square-headed window openings to remainder) with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and timber casement windows. Segmental-headed carriageway to left ground floor with red brick dressings, and timber boarded double doors. Set back from road in shared grounds.(ii) Remains of detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic, built 1776, possibly originally engine house with single-bay single-storey side elevations. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and fittings now gone.

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