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Coastguard station in Coad

Coastguard station

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Coastguard station in Coad puts one entrance upstairs, at the top of an outside flight of steps. Even on dry land, these lads made you climb aboard.
Group of detached stone-built buildings, built c. 1900, originally forming coastguard complex, later in use as sanatorium, now disused. Comprising detached three-bay single-storey house with gablets to dormer attic windows, now ruinous. Detached six-bay single-storey range with attic, having door opening to first floor of south gable end approached by flight of steps, now ruinous. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding possibly over basement, now derelict. Detached five-by two-storey building, now ruinous. Detached three-bay single-storey house, now ruinous. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, pebbledashed chimneystacks, profiled cast-iron gutters and having corrugated-iron to out-building. Pebbledashed or cement rendered walls to rubble stone walls. Rendered brick sills with remains of timber sliding sash window frames.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21310606

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Phil Champion, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Keith Cunneen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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