Survey Data
Reg No
20908750
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Store/warehouse
In Use As
Office
Date
1820 - 1825
Coordinates
179158, 65488
Date Recorded
03/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached thirteen-bay three-storey former store, built 1822. Single-storey flat-roofed block to rear (west). Now disused. Roofless. Dressed limestone cornice. Rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings with dressed limestone surrounds and sills and some with four-over-eight pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed blind openings to gables. Square-headed loading bays to front (east) elevation with dressed limestone surrounds and timber fittings. Round-headed openings to ground floor with dressed limestone surrounds and impost course. Round-headed door opening to front.
Appraisal
Haulbowline Island has been in military use since 1609 and the array of structures on the island contribute much to Ireland's maritime heritage and naval history. One six stores of similar size and design built by Royal Navy in early nineteenth century, the imposing form is heightened by stone construction and features such as surrounds, parapet, mansard roof and quoins. Prominently sited it, together with the other structures on the island provides a unique feature, visible from the mainland. Though derelict it is well constructed and features a high degree of artistic interest in window and door surrounds and quoins.