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www. architect.crimmins.ie Conservation Appraisal of Walled Garden and Historic landscape of Kylemore Abbey 21 CA THAL CRIMMINS AR CHITECT

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The Melon House

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There are elements of the previous glasshouse structure with cast iron pipes running
around the interior walls.
There are 112w x 100h x 235l buff bricks with an unusual frog as can bee seen in photo
1. The bricks are stamped Robert Brown and Son, Paisley
TThe brick patterning suggests that the wall may have been built up at a later date.

Jupp and Mc Erlan’s report notes.

THE MELON HOUSE
`Span-Roofed melon house about 26ft
long’.
This house is the same dimensions as
the others. A large Cryptomeria has
collapsed over it and its dense cover
renders it impossible to investigate the
interior. It appears to have a very
narrow bed about 0.40m wide and
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clearance before proper investigation
can be made. In 1902 it is referred to as
follow:
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`In the melon-house a good second
crop was being gathered, and in the
centre of this house we noticed some
good.specimens of Begonia Gloire de
Lorraine and B. Turnford Hall, also a
collection of Codiaeums, Caladiums,
etc.