Survey Data
Reg No
32314007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Signal box
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
165940, 315672
Date Recorded
30/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay two-storey brick and timber signal box, built c. 1890, now disused. First floor jettied on west side, steel staircase on south side. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted timber bargeboards, half-round cast-iron gutters on painted timber projecting eaves, brick corbelled chimneystack with tall pots on east side. Painted brick walling to ground floor, chamfered plinth, oblong painted timber moulded panel on west elevation below jetty with embossed lettering 'BALLYMOTE STATION CABIN', painted horizontally-boarded walling to first floor. First floor jetty carried on cast-iron gallows brackets each with engaged ring in spandrel set on stone corbel. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor, brick dressings, painted masonry sills, painted timber fixed-light windows. Square-headed window openings to north, west and east sides of first floor, aluminium-framed horizontally-sliding windows between painted timber mullions. Square-headed door opening to south side of first floor, painted vertically-sheeted timber door c. 1980. Set at ramp at north end of east platform of Ballymote railway station, railway line to west.
Appraisal
Although no longer in use, this signal box is a good example of an essential feature of the nineteenth century railway. Its pleasing yet functional design of brick and timber with cast-iron gallows brackets adds to the architectural quality of the station complex.