Survey Data

Reg No

13902503


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Original Use

Coastguard station


In Use As

House


Date

1940 - 1945


Coordinates

313260, 276686


Date Recorded

19/07/2005


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced two-bay two-storey former coastguard house, dated 1943, built to replace similar structures burned c. 1920. Now in private domestic use. One of a terrace of six, L-plan, lean-to extension to north, porch to south. Flat roof, red brick chimneystack with sandstone capping, tooled sandstone corbelled eaves course. Red brick Flemish bond walling, yellow brick banding, machine-made brick to extension. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows,. uPVC windows and door to porch. Terrace set on north bank of Boyne estuary; bounded to front (south) with random coursed limestone wall, soldier coping, painted smooth rendered piers, wrought-iron gate; laneway to north giving access to rear sites.

Appraisal

Originally built in the 1840s, burned during the early 1920s and later rebuilt this coastguard station has been an integral feature at Queensborough over a prolonged period of time. Their simple design with slight variations and communal rear laneway make an attractive little community which, together with the surrounding structures and group of beacons along the estuary, make an interesting maritime complex near the mouth of the Boyne.