Survey Data

Reg No

20908745


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Historical, Social


Original Use

Store/warehouse


In Use As

Office


Date

1820 - 1825


Coordinates

179088, 65559


Date Recorded

03/10/2007


Date Updated

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Description

Detached nine-bay three-storey with attic accommodation former store, built 1822, now in use as naval offices. Mansard slate roof with cut limestone parapet with dressed limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods, dressed limestone cornice and square-headed dormer windows. Rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings to first and second floors of front elevation, to rear (west) elevation and to north and south elevations, with dressed limestone surrounds and sills and eight-over-eight and four-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings with four-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to dormer windows. Square-headed blind openings to north and south gables with dressed limestone surrounds and sills. Round-headed openings to ground floor with dressed limestone surrounds and impost course, spoked fanlights and timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors, some replacement. Dressed limestone retaining wall to dock to east.

Appraisal

Haulbowline Island has been in military use since 1609 and the array of structures on the island contribute much to Ireland's maritime heritage and naval history. One six stores of similar size and design built by Royal Navy in early nineteenth century, the imposing form is heightened by stone construction and features such as surrounds, parapet, mansard roof and quoins. Prominently sited it, together with the other structures on the island provides a unique feature, visible from the mainland. Well constructed, it features a high degree of artistic interest in window and door surrounds and quoins.