Worker's house in Newrath, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Worker's house in Newrath put the crossing guard's home beside the railway crossing itself. A lovely short journey to work, until you tried arriving late with a story about being held up by a train.

Detached three-bay single-storey crossing guard’s house, opened 1854, with square-headed open internal porch to centre. Part refenestrated. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having one replacement uPVC casement window. Square-headed door opening under square-headed open internal porch with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front.

A pleasantly-composed small-scale house representing an important element of the built heritage of the locality on account of the associations with the development of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Having been reasonably well maintained to present an early aspect the house remains an appealing landmark enhancing the aesthetic value of the street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12404323

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