Station House in Howth, worker's house in County Dublin

What is recorded here

Station House in Howth still has its fancy lattice porch, looking dressed and ready for the tram that stopped running in 1959. There’s being early, there’s being late, and there’s keeping a porch ready through several changes of government.

Detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1890, with gabled projecting porch to front elevation. Retaining original fenestration. Associated with Great Northern Railway (GNR) Sutton and Howth Electric Tramway (opened 1901; closed 1959). ROOF: Double-pitched; slate; concrete ridge tiles; red brick chimney stacks; yellow terracotta pots; timber eaves; cast-iron rainwater goods; Gable-fronted to porch with timber lattice dressings to gable. WALLS: Roughcast; painted; nap rendered dressings including quoins to porch and continuous course; painted. OPENINGS: Segmental-headed openings; granite sills; 6/6 timber sash windows; square-headed door opening to rear elevation: tongue-and-groove timber panelled door.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11367004

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