Survey Data
Reg No
15500034
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Previous Name
Wexford North Railway Station
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1885 - 1895
Coordinates
304708, 122353
Date Recorded
23/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay single-storey railway station, built 1890-1, on a H-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gabled advanced end bays; seven-bay single-storey platform (north) elevation with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan abutting hipped glazed roof (north) in timber frame on cast-iron Corinthian colonette pillars, trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on chamfered cushion courses on red brick Running bond bases having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting iron-covered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with wrought iron finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with tiled step threshold, and moulded surround framing replacement fittings. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite chamfered sills, and moulded surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite chamfered sills, fluted timber mullions, and moulded surrounds centred on diamond pointed rusticated keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening to platform (north) elevation with tiled step threshold, and moulded surround framing replacement fittings. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite chamfered sills, and moulded surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite chamfered sills, fluted timber mullions, and moulded surrounds centred on diamond pointed rusticated keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square fronted with tarmacadam footpath to front.
Appraisal
A railway station erected by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company representing an important component of the late nineteenth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one superseding a series of makeshift accommodations dating back to a temporary terminus opened (1882) in nearby Carcur, suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on restrained doorcases; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline: meanwhile, a canopy supplied (1891) by the Thompson Brothers Engineers and Contractors Company of Wexford pinpoints the engineering or technical potential of the composition. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a railway station making a pleasing visual statement in an urban street scene.