4 Station Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A ruinous two-storey/ three-bay station house on west side of main Belfast- Dublin railway, immediately south-west of road-over-rail bridge (HB16/015/021).

Multiple natural slate roofs, some pitched, others hipped. The pitched roofs have advanced bargeboards, and all have boxed eaves, ogee gutters (parts missing). Four rendered brick chimneys with unrendered yellow-brick copings. Walls are smooth cement rendered over random rubble, with exposed stepped yellow-brick trim to openings and shallow segmental heads to windows. All windows have stooled granite cills. Virtually all the window and door frames have gone.

1. East elevation (to platform).
The left and middle bays have a monopitched corrugated-metal canopy over and the right bay has a projecting gable. The left bay contains a pair of windows (with common cill), the middle bay the main entrance, and the right bay a window. There is a window to each bay at first floor level. The left cheek of the projecting right bay has a window at first floor. Its right cheek has a door at ground floor level and a window above.

2. South elevation
Five openings wide: left half advances beyond that at right. The advanced left half has a door at left and two windows to right. Two windows to first floor. The right cheek of this projecting section is blank. Right half has two windows to ground floor and one at right end of first floor.

3. West elevation
This elevation has two windows to ground floor and three to first floor.

4. North elevation (to road)
The left and middle sections project beyond that at right. The left section has two windows to each floor. The middle section is blank to ground floor. At first floor level is a window at left and a door at right. The latter leads on to a lattice-girder footbridge (now without deck) leading to the road. The right cheek of this section has a pair of windows to ground floor and a window to first floor. The right-hand section has a door to ground floor and window to first floor.

Setting:

Platform to both sides of double track. Of random rubble with dressed granite copings along edges. North ends terminate at road bridge.

The premises are bounded along the road by a random rubble wall. The east platform is accessed from the road through a wrought-iron pedestrian gate. The house is accessed by a similar gate to the footbridge leading to the first floor. Further along this side is a ‘sunburst’ wrought-iron vehicle gate to the station yard.

Historical information

Although this section of line was opened in the early 1850s, there was no station at this location. It is first cited in the 1892 Valuation Revision book entry as “new station” for the Great Northern Railway Co. Cited on the 1907 OS map as Adavoyle Station.

Primary sources:
1. Valuation Revision book, 1892 (PRONI VAL 12B/15/15B, p.57).
2. OS 6” map, 3rd edition, Co Armagh sheet 29 (PRONI OS 6/2/29/3).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A ruinous two-storey/ three-bay station house. This building is of some architectural and historic interest, but insufficient fabric survives to merit listing.