Boathouse in Ballinatray Lower, County Wexford

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Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifeboat house or "rocket house", extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stack (south) having stepped capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed coursed rubble stone walls with red brick quoins to corners. Horseshoe-shaped opening with red brick surround framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings to side elevations between flat iron tie bars with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded fittings. Set back from line of street in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping.

A lifeboat house or ""rocket house"" representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Courtown.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15611022

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