Survey Data

Reg No

20903903


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

Railway station


In Use As

Railway station


Date

1850 - 1855


Coordinates

126685, 92203


Date Recorded

03/10/2006


Date Updated

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Description

Detached railway station and station master's house, built 1853, comprising two-storey T-plan stationmaster's house with three-bay front and rear elevations, eastern two bays projecting and gabled, flanked to east by two-bay single-storey waiting room with open-sided shelter to trackside elevation and having two-bay gable-fronted block to east of waiting room, and two-bay single-storey block to west side of house with flat-roof extension to its west. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and eaves course. Coursed snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone quoins and having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds to window and door openings. Blank plaque to trackside gable. Recent metal commemorative plaque to front elevation. Segmental-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Similar door openings with recessed surrounds and timber panelled doors. Cast-iron fireplaces to waiting rooms.

Appraisal

A large number of structures were erected to provide services for the railway networks in Ireland, of which this railway station is a fine example. The station was designed as both a domestic and utilitarian structure. Fine quality materials have been used in the construction of the station. This façade is enlivened by the juxtaposition of sandstone walls and limestone dressings, which provide textural and chromatic variation. The building retains many interesting materials and features such as the cast-iron fireplace to the waiting rooms and slate roofs, which further enhance the structure. The station forms an integral part of other related railway structures including the outbuilding and workers' houses.