Survey Data
Reg No
15007135
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Athlone Southern Railway Station
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1855 - 1860
Coordinates
204321, 241841
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey Italianate style Railway Station, built c.1858 with single-bay single-storey pavilions to either end. Renovated and extended 1985. Hipped slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of snecked limestone with ashlar detailing over ashlar plinth. Ashlar quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with ashlar architraves with entablatures over to ground floor, replacement windows to all openings. Segmental-headed doorcase with architrave set in recessed three-bay loggia with round-headed openings with limestone Doric pillars and limestone surrounds. Two limestone roundels above loggia with cast-iron lanterns. Original interior replaced.
Appraisal
A highly attractive mid nineteenth-century train station, built in a compact and elegant Italianate style. High quality craftsmanship is apparent in the dressings and detailing of the masonry employed. It was built to designs by George Wilkinson (1814-90) for the Great Southern and Western Railway Company's Portarlington to Athlone Midland line in 1858.