Survey Data
Reg No
15601109
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
Date
1860 - 1904
Coordinates
315684, 159258
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay double-height goods shed, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Series of three camber- or segmental-headed openings between buttresses with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing concrete block infill. "Lunette" or round-headed window openings (gables) with cut-granite sills, and red brick header bond voussoirs framing corrugated-iron infill. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Gorey Railway Station.
Appraisal
A goods shed contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Gorey Railway Station complex (cf. 15603202).