Survey Data
Reg No
31807013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Store/warehouse
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
192972, 298812
Date Recorded
04/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey goods shed, built c.1880 by the Midland Great Western Railway as part of the Longford to Sligo line. Now in use as storage facility, with extension to south-east and north-west. Pitched corrugated roof with red brick chimneystack and oversailing eaves. Random coursed rock-faced limestone and sandstone walls. Tooled cut stone buttresses to façade. Tooled cut stone quoins and surrounds to openings and projecting plinth to rear. Segmental-headed window openings to façade now blocked with central entrance bay having modern shutters. Red brick to segmental arch. Oculus windows to rear and Diocletian windows to gables with red brick surrounds, now blocked up.
Appraisal
This former station goods shed, although now leased out for storage use, is an integral part of this railway complex. It is an attractive well-proportioned structure, further enhanced by the (now blocked up) combination of oculus, Diocletian and segmental-headed openings.