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Roscommon Railway Station

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Roscommon Railway Station
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One word in the official record changes the whole story. It is the first visual introduction to the station and a fine example of late-nineteenth century railway architecture.
Detached single-storey station building, built c. 1860, with five-bay façade and seven-bay platform elevation, with recessed wings to each end and central projecting entrance bay. Pitched slated roofs with shaped gables to main block and to entrance, with stone finials. Hipped roof to north wing and flat roof to south with rock-faced parapet walls. Cut stone and red brick chimneystacks. Random coursed tooled limestone walls with plinth and cut stone cornice. Canopy to western platform elevation with decorative cast-iron brackets and corrugated roof. Timber casement windows with tooled cut stone surrounds with keystones and tooled stone sills. Round-headed entranceway with tooled cut stone surround and label moulding, containing timber panelled door with sidelights and fanlight. Timber and glazed double doors to platform entrance. Station is bounded by random coursed wall with cut stone piers with cast-iron gate.
It is the first visual introduction to the station and a fine example of late-nineteenth century railway architecture.
Roscommon Railway Station built by the Midland Great Western Railway Company is a well-maintained Elizabethan style station building. It is the first visual introduction to the station and a fine example of late-nineteenth century railway architecture. The attractive gable treatment, decorative canopy and tooled stone dressings add artistic interest to the building.

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It is the first visual introduction to the station and a fine example of late-nineteenth century railway architecture.

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