Moira Railway Station, Station Road, Moira, Co. Down

Moira Railway Station is a single-storey over semi-basement, double-pile station building in Italianate style, aligned east-west on the 'up' platform serving Dublin. The building comprises five structural bays in the pile fronting the platform and two bays in the shorter rear pile. A single-bay toilet flat-roofed return stands at the west end of the rear pile, accessed by a passage around the east end of both piles.

Both piles are topped with hipped natural slate roofs with oversailing boxed eaves. Ogee cast-metal gutters and down pipes run throughout. Two rendered chimneys with bracketed copings rise from between the two piles. The walls are constructed of rendered random rubble with shallow pilasters at all corners and along the platform elevation. The render is block-lined to all elevations except along the platform.

The front pile faces the platform with alternating doors and windows. Save for the left-hand end, the façade is symmetrical, with two string courses running across at window level. A projecting canopy across the platform frontage has been removed. The two doorways contain double-leaf two-panel doors with semicircular overlights (now sheeted over) and smooth-rendered stucco architraves. The windows are 1x4-paned timber frames with semicircular heads and similar stucco surrounds including cills; all are now fitted with metal security grilles. The second window from the left opens. The middle windows of this façade are paired. Just left of the window nearest the west stands a Victorian letter box recessed within the wall and still in use.

Only the upper parts of the other three elevations are visible owing to ground raising that has obscured the semi-basement from view. Two string courses run along the lower visible section level with the platform, with round-ended rectangular stucco panels between them, except on the east elevation where only the two string courses appear. The east elevation of the front pile is blank, and the paired windows on the rear pile have been rendered over. An open balcony runs in front of the rear pile. At the base of the right-hand end, a portion of the wall has been deliberately left unrendered to expose the underlying random rubble stonework. The south elevation has no openings except a narrow slit vent (now infilled) to the ladies' toilet at the left. Originally, semicircular openings at basement level provided access to the station master's accommodation. The west elevation contains paired windows to the gables of both piles, detailed as the front façade, and a small slit vent to the toilet at the right.

A modern signal light gantry on the platform stands immediately in front of the public entrance. On the opposite 'down' platform serving Belfast is a small timber mono-pitched cabin-like waiting room. In the car park to the east stands a relocated signal cabin supported on a concrete plinth, beyond which is a brick-arched field accommodation bridge and drainage culvert under the railway line. In the depot on the opposite side of the line are a metal-clad goods shed and jib crane. A later 19th-century station master's house stands a short distance north-west, and a basalt railway bridge crosses the Lagan canal due west.