Survey Data
Reg No
31301504
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Coastguard station
In Use As
House
Date
1822 - 1838
Coordinates
121781, 332159
Date Recorded
06/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey coastguard station, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Closed, 1864. "Improved", pre-1896, producing present composition. Renovated, 2004, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with roughcast chimney stacks to apexes centred on roughcast chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting iron gate.
Appraisal
A cottage-like coastguard station representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of the rural environs of Killala (cf. 31301505). Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a coastguard station making a pleasing visual statement overlooking an inlet of Killala Bay.