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Athlone Midland Railway Station — Grace Road

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Athlone Midland Railway Station — Grace Road
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Detached seventeen-bay two-storey Italianate-style railway station, built c.1851, with four breakfronts and four single-storey flanking porches. Closed in 1985 and now in use as offices and stores. Hipped, low-pitched, natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and ashlar limestone chimneystacks with heavy cornices. Constructed of snecked limestone with ashlar detailing including projecting string courses, sill course and Doric pilasters with Doric entablature over at eaves level. Square-headed openings to ground floor with timber sliding sash windows, round-headed window openings above to first floor with sliding margin sash windows and ashlar surrounds. Segmental-headed door surrounds to porches and square-headed opening to central breakfront, all with original painted timber doors. Set slightly back from road with cast-iron railings on cut limestone plinth to east and west. Platforms to interior have cast-iron shafts with foliate brackets supporting timber canopy roof. Red brick building, c.1890, to the west.

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