Survey Data
Reg No
22108102
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Office
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
189064, 135389
Date Recorded
20/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former railway station, built c. 1845, now in use as offices. Screen walls to platform and canted bay windows to trackside elevation. Skirt slate roof, with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, partially roughcast rendered to front elevation. Square-headed window openings, with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, all having painted sills. Window guards to front elevation ground floor. Moulded cornice and timber battening to bay windows, with recessed fixed timber windows with painted sills. Segmental-headed door openings to principal elevations, with glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors, timber panelled pilasters with moulded capitals, glazed timber panelled side panels and cut limestone plinth course. Blocked fanlight to front, spoked fanlight to trackside doorway. Wrought- and cast-iron railings to front elevation. To interior, moulded coving to walls, moulded timber architraves to timber panelled door, timber benches to waiting room with turned legs, and timber panelled surround to ticket box with carved timber rail. Rendered screen walls to platform, partially painted and having round-headed niches flanking trackside elevation. Square-headed cut stone openings to east and west, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Tarmacadamed car park to north and east of site.
Appraisal
The establishment of a national railway network brought an era of great social and economic activity to Ireland. This railway station building unusually has classical proportions and detailing and forms part of a group of such structures. The building has been sympathetically restored and re-used, and retains much significant fabric. The entrance hall is particularly intact, and fine craftsmanship is evident in the high quality joinery.