Survey Data
Reg No
15700741
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Coastguard station
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
325465, 166564
Date Recorded
26/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey coastguard station, ----, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. In alternative use, 1914-8. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1940. "Restored", 1999, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, paired rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-granite eaves on thumbnail beaded terracotta corbels. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite chamfered sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in relandscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A coastguard station representing an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Ballymoney Coastguard Station (1874-5; see 15700738) and thereby attributable to Enoch Trevor Owen (c.1833-81) of the Board of Public Works (appointed 1863), confirmed by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings showing vibrant red brick dressings. NOTE: Reduced to during "The Troubles" (1919-23) when 'masked men came one dark night and ordered the coast-guards to go [and] then burned down the buildings' (Sadie Cuthbert 7th June 1938).