Survey Data
Reg No
31209099
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
115266, 289411
Date Recorded
03/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey railway station, opened 1862; extant 1895, on a rectangular plan with three-bay single-storey platform (south) elevation. Renovated. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on timber box eaves. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Triangular-headed window openings with square-headed window openings to platform (south) elevation, drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows having overlights replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in own grounds.
Appraisal
A railway station identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Castlebar on account of the connections with the development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1862) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition, one attributable to Frederick Barry (1821-85) of Dublin (IAA), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the curiously Modernistic angular profile of the openings.