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Rosslare Strand Railway Station At this point - at the eastern end of the platform, the track runs single-track to the end of the line at Rosslare Harbour. · Photo: Raymond Okonski · CC BY-SA 2.0

Rosslare Strand Railway Station Rosslare Strand services the nearby town of Rosslare. There are 3 intercity services a day to Dublin Connolly and 1 service to Limerick via Waterford. · Photo: David Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is recorded here

The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars.

Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built 1913, on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars. Set in own grounds.

Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars.

A railway station representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one superseding 'an insanitary and unsightly building' erected in connection with the extension of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1882) by the Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company (The People 11th January 1913, n.p.), suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form centred on a somewhat featureless doorcase. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, a nearby signal box (see 15704306) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a seaside village setting presently (2007) undergoing extensive "suburban" development.

The story behind this place

Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars.

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