Palace East Junction Railway Station

Detached seven-bay single-storey barrel-roofed railway station, built 1887; opened 1887, on a T-shaped plan centred on three-bay single-storey "bas-relief" breakfront with single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Attacked, 1923. Closed, 1931. Closed, 1963. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Corrugated-iron-covered segmental barrel roof on a T-shaped plan centred on canopy on timber consoles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Corrugated-iron-covered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber door. Square-headed window openings with timber sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in unkempt 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 development of the New Ross Branch of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1887) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Inch Railway Station (1887) in Inch (see 15700322), suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on a canopied doorcase; the expiditious corrugated-iron surface finish (cf. 15704046); and the curvilinear roofline. Furthermore, an adjacent signal box (1923) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly obscure visual statement in a sylvan street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by John Smith (----), 'Railway Station Master' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Michael Fleming (----), 'Station Master' (NA 1911).