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Fethard Folk Farm and Transport Museum

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Fethard Folk Farm and Transport Museum
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Detached three-bay single-storey railway goods shed, built 1879, with single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear. Now in use as folk museum and grounds as venue for car boot sales. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and copings, brick chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front, partly rendered to rear and rubble limestone walls to gables, painted to north, with rusticated quoins. Round-arched carriage arches with rusticated limestone voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds to front elevation, and with cut limestone voussoirs to those in gable ends, partly blocked to north gable. Square-headed window opening to front elevation. Cast-iron pump at front wall having fluted shaft and cap, lion's head mask and acorn finial.
The symmetrically-placed carriage arches emphasise and enhance the simple form of this former railway goods shed. The massive rusticated quoins create a sense of strength and durability, as well as providing textural contrast with the rendered walls, and the cut and rubble limestone. It forms an interesting group with the former railway station and waiting room to the south.

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