Survey Data
Reg No
31807010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Building misc
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
193053, 298778
Date Recorded
04/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey passenger shelter or waiting room, built c.1860 by the Midland Great Western Railway as part of the Longford to Sligo line. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves, plain bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber panelled walls with decorative bracing to window aprons. Fixed pane timber windows with timber sills. Timber battened double door. Set on north-east side of platform opposite main station building.
Appraisal
This passenger shelter or waiting room forms part of a railway complex at Carrick-on-Shannon station. It is a fine example of late nineteenth-century railway architecture. Though modest in scale, its exterior exhibits decoratve features such as the timber bracework below the windows, which complements the battened door and fine glazing bars of the windows.