Survey Data
Reg No
12402002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
261161, 154447
Date Recorded
18/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached nine-bay single-storey railway station, opened 1852. Closed, 1963. Now in residential use. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks on unpainted rendered bases having carved cut-limestone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Yellow brick Common (third course headers) bond walls with tooled cut-granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, yellow brick voussoirs, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick voussoirs, and timber panelled doors having overlights. Set in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site, and platform along front (north) elevation having random rubble stone retaining wall with cut-granite coping. (ii) Detached two-bay double-height railway goods store, built 1852, to north originally having pair of camber-headed carriageways. Renovated, pre-1963, with carriageways remodelled. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Pair of camber-headed carriageways remodelled, pre-1963, accommodating camber-headed window openings with no sills, fixed-pane fittings, and tooled cut-limestone surrounds to outline of carriageways incorporating voussoirs. Square-headed door openings to side elevations with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.
Appraisal
A pleasantly-composed modest-scale railway station representing an important element of the architectural heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Carlow and Kilkenny Branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Irish South Eastern Railway Company in association with the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Despite having been decommissioned in the mid to late twentieth century the subsequent adaptation to accommodate an alternative use has ensured that the original attributes have survived in place together with most of the historic fabric. Complemented by an attendant outbuilding displaying high quality stone masonry the resulting self-contained ensemble makes a pleasing visual statement in a rural setting.