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Cahore Point Coastguard Station

Coastguard station

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Detached ten-bay single-storey "double-fronted" coastguard station with half-dormer attic, extant 1888, on an L-shaped plan including five-bay single-storey (south) or five-bay single-storey (east) elevations. Occupied, 1901. Partly occupied, 1911. Vacant, 1921. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on an L-shaped plan including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, lichen-spotted coping to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Road fronted with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted rounded capping supporting timber gates.
A coastguard station representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15701731

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Michael Dibb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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