Boathouse in Fethard

Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifesaving apparatus house, extant 1911, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods on timber boarded box eaves. Red brick Flemish bond walls. Square-headed opening with timber beam lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and lintels framing concrete block infill. Set back from line of street with piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.

A lifesaving apparatus house erected by the Board of Public Works (NA 1911) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Fethard (cf. 15619015).