Survey Data
Reg No
22500032
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Waterford North Railway Station
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Office
Date
1905 - 1910
Coordinates
260309, 113035
Date Recorded
11/06/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached fifteen-bay single-storey red brick building, opened 1908, retaining early aspect, and originally built as wing to railway station. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Red brick English bond walls with moulded red brick course to eaves. Square-headed window openings to front (south) elevation with cut-limestone flush sills, wrought iron sill guards and cut-limestone lintels having chamfered reveals. 6/9 timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with cut-limestone lintels, timber panelled doors and overlights. Square-headed window openings to platform (north) elevation with timber sills, surrounds and continuous cornice over. 6/2 timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with timber surrounds, continuous cornice over, timber panelled doors and overlights. Road fronted with concrete flagged footpath to front, and concrete flagged platform to north.
Appraisal
This building, built as a wing to the original railway station building on site, is an attractive composition of regular proportions that has been well maintained to present an early aspect. The building, together with the signal box (22500027/WD-5632-16-27) and platform canopy (22500033/WD-5632-16-33), is of significance as a reminder of the original railway station complex in Waterford City, the station building of which was subsequently replaced. The building retains many important salient features and materials to the exterior, and it is believed that some original fittings to the interior also survive intact. The building is an attractive feature of the streetscape of Dock Road, terminating the vista from Rice Bridge to the south.