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.