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CA THAL CRIMMINS AR CHITECT 10 Conservation Appraisal of Walled Garden and Historic landscape of Kylemore Abbey www. architect.crimmins.ie

IMG_0541.JPG IMG_0542.JPG IMG_0543.JPG IMG_0552.JPG P1100502.JPG

The South East Vinery

This was restored as part of the 2000 restoration using a glulam beam structure.
The beams are rotting in sections and shoulld be repaired as should the rotting
Jupp and Mc Erlan’s report notes.
windows (IMG_0541). The floor grilles are quite thin and bouncy compared to the
THE EAST VINERY original surviving cast iron work (P1100503).
`Vinery about 32ft long with well grown
Black Hamboro about Madresfield Court
Vines’.
This house has the distinction of being the
last glasshouse- in operation and it was
used, with some adaptation, until the 1960s
amid the neglect and abandonment of the
others. It measures internally 9.30m [30ft
6in] long by 4.30m [14ft 8in] broad. Some
sizeable trees occupy the interior. 4 of the
IMG_2045.JPG IMG_3160.JPG IMG_8592.JPG original curving iron spans which supported
the roof are still in situ and these will be of
great help n any restoration. They rest on
buttresses. The back wall is 4.37m [14ft 6mj
ingn anu u.44-o 9in] thick and is built in
stone and was originally plastered. The low
south brick wall on the front of the house
has 8 arched openings at ground level for
the roots of the vines to grow outside in the
vinery border. Each arch has a span of
approximately 0.9m [3ft]. The vinery border The South East Corner Conservatory
extends out 3.66m [12ft] from the wall and
runs the length of the house. It is bounded This is the main entrance to the glasshouse complex and its condition needs to be
on the west by a low retaining wall, on the consolidated and repaired in sections.
south by a path, now buried, and on the east
by the wall of the garden. Later adaptations
observable include the presence of
galvanised water pipes. The 1905 article in
the Gardeners Chronicle note ‘A lofty house
had a very good crop of Black Hamburg’.
IMG_9115.JPG P1100503.JPG THE SOUTH EAST CORNER CONSERVATORY
This is the twin of the other small corner
conservatory on the south west. It gave
access to the Palm House and the east
fernery and vinery and from the exterior. No
staging has survived but the floor is in good
condition.