Overview
station master's house — Roscommon is recorded as station master's house in Roscommon. Detached two-bay two-storey former station master's house, built c.1860 by the Great Southern Railways, now vacant. T-plan with pitched slate roof with stone coping with flat-roofed block to north-west and single-storey entrance porch to east.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached two-bay two-storey former station master's house, built c.1860 by the Great Southern Railways, now vacant.
People and work
The saved account records: T-plan with pitched slate roof with stone coping with flat-roofed block to north-west and single-storey entrance porch to east.
How it changed
The saved account records: Single-storey hipped shed abuts west.
What survives
The saved account records: House set in mature garden to west of railway station, bounded by stone walls.
Why it mattered
station master's house — Roscommon matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This former station master's house forms part of a significant group of related structures at Roscommon Railway Station. Its interesting architectural form is enhanced by the survival of well-finished original materials including dressed stonework. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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