ODEON CHARLESTOWN Heritage

🏭 Heritage-listed building

Built: c.1855 · NIAH rating: Regional

This monumental former railway terminal is a handsome classical example of urban railway architecture. The elegant entrance front is effectively juxtaposed with the functional railway buildings to the rear. The building retains salient features such as the portico, Tuscan colonnade and arched vaults. Skilled stonework is evident, with the facade enlivened by the textural variation between brown brick with granite in the entrance range and brick with Calp limestone in the sheds and vaults. Harcourt Street station is considered among the best work of George Wilkinson (1814-90), a noted architect of his day, who also completed the designs for a number of other railway stations in the country. Its function as the terminus of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway made it one of the most important railway buildings in the country. Evidence of building repairs are visible on the north elevation following a train crash, which achieved a level of infamy, in 1900. The nearby tram stop provides an interesting perspective on the evolution of rail transportation from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in Ireland.

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