Chapel Railway Station

Detached four- or five-bay single-storey railway station, built 1884, on a rectangular plan; five-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Burnt, 1923. Closed, 1963. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

A railway station identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford on account of the connections with the continued development or "improvement" of the Waterford, New Ross and Wexford Junction Railway (WNRWJR) line by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, a diagonally opposing barrel-roofed goods store (----) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Joseph Cushen (d. 1903), 'Station Master' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Thomas Cushen (----), 'Railway Station Master' (NA 1911).