Rosmoney Coastguard Station

Detached thirteenth-bay two-storey coastguard station, designed 1875-6; built 1875-6, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay abutting single-bay three-stage "watch tower" (west) on a square plan originally single-bay two-stage; twenty-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1916. Derelict, 1980. Restored, 1994; 2009, to accommodate proposed alternative use. Replacement pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan; replacement pyramidal slate roof ("watch tower"), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable with finial to apex, and plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters with plastic downpipes. Roughcast walls on lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered cushion course on roughcast plinth with rendered block-and-start piers to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Paired camber- or segmental-headed window openings (end bay) with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) centred on paired square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with coursed or snecked rock faced limestone battered boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rough hewn limestone coping.