Building Typology
Issues
1.156 The multi-storey Mill buildings are characterised by Flemish bond red brick with beige brick window openings and quoins. Large, numerous, camber- and square-headed window openings with stone sills characterise the large mill while the ancillary storage and administration buildings also of Flemish bond red brick have window and door openings highlighted with beige brick. Roofs are of natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods. 1.157 Donnybrook House, an early 18th century residence of one of the original owners of the mill, is an modest sized country house with later early 19th century “Gothick” alterations such as the slate hung towers. 1.158 The terrace of 5 residential buildings at the lower end of Donnybrook Hill are of high quality being of snecked, coursed limestone with brick, block- and-start window, and door surrounds. Pitched natural slate roofs with rendered and red brick chimneystacks, ceramic ridge tiles and some surviving cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered boundary walls to front and rear with gate piers and wrought-iron gates. 1.159 The two terraces of workers cottages are typified by being single storey, with red brick chimneys punctuating the property divisions on natural slate roofs and originally would have had cast iron rain goods, many of which have been replaced with PVC. The front doors are centrally placed with flanking windows with stone sills. The buildings are, and originally would have been, rendered and painted.
1.160 The requirements for space and light of modern living have given rise to insensitive additions to the industrial buildings. The domestic structures have suffered from the replacement of quality features such as sash windows and cast-iron rainwater goods with unsuitable modern plastic equivalents. The addition of large dormers and porches to the cottages has a negative impact on the rhythm and historic character of the terraces. The historic Donnybrook House is undergoing conservation work to prevent further loss of historic fabric. 1.161 The continuing use of the industrial buildings is welcome, but not all the associated interventions to facilitate modern uses has been carried out to the same standard, resulting in some loss of fabric while insensitive signage proliferates which has a negative impact on the historic character of the mills.
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Cork City Draft Development Plan 2022-2028
Volume 3 I Part 1
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