Inch Railway Station

Detached three-bay single-storey railway station master's house, ----, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch; three-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, collared "A"-frame timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed door opening with threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing margined two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds.

A railway station master's house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the gentle "sweep" of the openings with those openings showing pretty margined glazing patterns; and the timber work embellishing the roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the vaulted interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a railway station master's house forming part of a self-contained group alongside the adjacent Inch Railway Station (see 15700322) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by James McDonald (----), 'Station Master' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Henry O'Brien (----), 'Station Agent' (NA 1911).