Survey Data
Reg No
31807009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
193038, 298764
Date Recorded
04/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey railway station building, built c.1860 by the Midland Great Western Railway as part of the Longford to Sligo line. Station abuts single-storey parcel office to north-west. Canopy to rear shelters platform waiting area. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and oversailing eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed limestone walls. Tooled limestone quoins, opening surrounds and plinth. Timber sash and replacement segmental-headed windows with stone sills. Segmental-headed entrance with replacement glazed timber with fanlight and sidelights.
Appraisal
This attractive station building is typical of the finely-built structures associated with the nineteenth-century heyday of railway travel and transport in Leitrim and Roscommon. Its pleasant exterior is the focal point of this well-maintained station. The canopied waiting area enhances the platform onto which it fronts.