Survey Data
Reg No
14322016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
317999, 266748
Date Recorded
27/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1847, with central porch canopy. Pitched slate roof and brick chimneystacks. Timber clapperboard walls, with string course at sill level, set on a rendered plinth. Timber sash and fixed windows. Timber battened doors. Thirteen-bay single storey waiting building to site, with central recessed porch, fixed timber windows and clapper board walls. Stone embankment walls flanking tracks. Rebuilt bridge to site.
Appraisal
The station at Gormanstown is of architectural interest, particularly due to the timber construction of both the railway station and the building containing the waiting area. The pair of buildings retain many interesting features and materials, such as timber sash windows and slate roofs. Gormanstown Railway Station, consisting of the station, waiting building, former station master's house, and warehouse forms a significant architectural group in Gormanstown. The site is of historical interest as Captain James Flanagan of the IRA was shot here on the 29th May 1922.