Survey Data
Reg No
15704305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Rosslare Railway Station
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1910 - 1915
Coordinates
309848, 114516
Date Recorded
31/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built 1913, on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars. Set in own grounds.
Appraisal
A railway station representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one superseding 'an insanitary and unsightly building' erected in connection with the extension of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1882) by the Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company (The People 11th January 1913, n.p.), suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form centred on a somewhat featureless doorcase. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, a nearby signal box (see 15704306) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a seaside village setting presently (2007) undergoing extensive "suburban" development.