store/warehouse

Detached thirteen-bay three-storey with attic accommodation former store, built 1822, with single-storey lean-to addition to rear (south). Now disused. Mansard slate roof with cut limestone parapet with dressed limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods, dressed limestone cornice and square-headed dormer windows. Rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings with dressed limestone surrounds and sills and four-over-eight pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed blind openings to gables. Square-headed openings with four-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to dormer windows. Round-headed openings to ground floor with dressed limestone surrounds and impost course and ten-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed loading bays to front with dressed limestone surrounds and replacement fittings. Metal bracket winches to each. Round-headed door opening to front with timber battened double-leaf door, spoked fanlight and stepped dressed limestone surround, approached by flight of cut limestone steps.

Haulbowline Island has been in military use since 1609 and the array of structures on the island contribute much to Ireland's maritime heritage and naval history. One six stores of similar size and design built by Royal Navy in early nineteenth century, the imposing form is heightened by stone construction and features such as surrounds, parapet, mansard roof and quoins. Prominently sited it, together with the other structures on the island provides a unique feature, visible from the mainland. It features a high degree of artistic interest in window and door surrounds and quoins, the symmetrical form indicates a classical influence, also evident in round-headed recessed openings and keystone details.