
What is recorded here
Archival Description [Demolished 2014]: Detached three-bay three-storey malthouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan; two-bay full-height side elevations. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with rough hewn rubble stone (ground floor) or red brick (upper floors) flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron tie bars. Square-headed window openings in camber- or segmental-headed recesses with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded fittings behind timber bars. Set in unkempt grounds.
Archival Appraisal [Demolished 2014]: A malthouse representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by red brick dressings; the uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a malthouse forming part of a self-contained group alongside an adjacent malthouse (see 15505111) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a setting presently (2005) undergoing extensive "suburban" redevelopment.
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