Survey Data
Reg No
13707065
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Dundalk Railway Station
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
304121, 306975
Date Recorded
01/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-storey station railway building, built 1894, with canopy to south incorporating ramp from footbridge. Set on island platform. Random rubble stone plinth walls to platform, supporting brick paving, concrete coping to edges. Pitched slate roof, glazed sections, clay ridge tiles, yellow brick shouldered corbelled chimneystacks with raised banding and chevron moulding, painted timber bargeboards, moulded cast-iron gutters on brick corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes. Yellow brick walling laid in English bond, projecting plinth, red and black brick string courses. Segmental-headed window openings set in shallow recesses, roll-mouldings to reveals, black brick hood mouldings, granite sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, some with margin lights. Segmental-headed door openings set in shallow recesses, roll-mouldings to reveals, black brick hood mouldings, painted timber panelled doors, plain-glazed overlights, cast-iron sign to door south elevation reading "STATION MASTER". Painted timber single-storey former signalman's room to south elevation north building, denticulated cornice, painted timber-framed windows, timber sills supported on console brackets, painted timber door with glazed panels. Canopies to south and east and west elevations of buildings, glazed roofs, cast-iron roof structure, columns and brackets, timber and cast-iron benches. Railway tracks to east and west, further station buildings to north and east.
Appraisal
This platform and its associated buildings forms an integral part of the Dundalk Railway Station complex and reflects the overall style used throughout the site. The building is enlivened by the use of fine polychrome brickwork and subtle architectural detailing, of which the roll-mouldings and recessed surrounds are good examples. Retaining a wealth of original material this is a handsome representative of nineteenth-century railway architecture.