Station master's house in Ballyhennick

Detached L-plan two-bay two-storey former station master's house, built 1859, having flat-roofed extension to east elevation. Now in use as house. Intersecting hipped slate roofs with overhanging sheets eaves having carved timber eaves brackets. Rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render cornice. Square-headed window openings, paired to ground floor, having concrete sills supported by render console brackets. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and overlight.

Station master's house retaining its overall character and form in spite of refenestration and alterations. The eaves detailing incorporating paired timber brackets is indicative of the Tudor Revival style of architecture often employed by the railway companies. The optimistic spirit of enterprise and industry engulfed the latter half of the nineteenth century, the railway companies in particular built a large number of structures, many of these have now fallen into disuse and their survival is threatened.