Survey Data
Reg No
15618001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Magazine
Historical Use
Officers' mess
Date
1770 - 1840
Coordinates
272708, 108179
Date Recorded
21/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey ordnance store, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Reconstructed, 1939, to accommodate alternative use. Decommissioned, 1986. Now disused. One of a pair. Replacement pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with lichen-covered concrete ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on roughcast eaves. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Limewashed barrel vaulted interior. Set in shared grounds including relandscaped parade ground.
Appraisal
An ordnance store erected as one of a pair (including 15618003) contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Duncannon Fort complex with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the pronounced battered silhouette; and the high pitched roof: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the partial reconstruction of the ordnance store at the outbreak of "The Emergency" (1939-46). Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior where a limewashed barrel vault pinpoints the engineering or technical dexterity of an ordnance store forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a dramatic visual statement overlooking Waterford Harbour.