Survey Data
Reg No
15703214
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1875
Coordinates
297561, 127213
Date Recorded
08/01/2008
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey railway station, designed 1871; built 1872; opened 1872, on a rectangular plan; three-bay two-storey platform (east) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Closed, 1964. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls on red brick header bond chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; replacement artificial slate hung surface finishes (side elevations). Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing replacement aluminium casement windows replacing one-over-one or two-over-two timber sash windows. Remodelled square-headed central opening to platform (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing replacement aluminium casement windows replacing one-over-one or two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A railway station erected by William Wardropp (d. 1890) of Dublin (Shepherd and Beesley 1998, 22) identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford on account of the connections with the extension of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1872) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in a vibrant red brick with silver-grey granite dressings not only demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also producing a lively two-tone palette; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a railway station making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a sylvan setting. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by John Murphy (----), 'Railway Station Master' (NA 1901); and (1911) by James McSweeney (----), 'Station Master' (NA 1911).