4 Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JH

4 Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh

A ruinous two-storey, three-bay station house standing on the west side of the main Belfast-Dublin railway, immediately south-west of a road-over-rail bridge. The building dates from the late 19th century, though the railway line itself opened in the early 1850s. The station is first documented in the 1892 Valuation Revision book as a "new station" for the Great Northern Railway Company, and appears on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map as Adavoyle Station.

The building is constructed of random rubble with smooth cement rendering, and features rendered brick chimneys with unrendered yellow-brick copings. The roofs are a mixture of natural slate, some pitched with advanced bargeboards and others hipped; all have boxed eaves and ogee gutters, though parts of the latter are missing. The walls are trimmed with exposed stepped yellow brick around the openings, and windows have shallow segmental heads and granite cills. Virtually all window and door frames have been lost.

The east elevation faces the platform and comprises three bays. The left and middle bays are covered by a monopitched corrugated-metal canopy, while the right bay has a projecting gable. The left bay contains a pair of windows with a common cill and the middle bay holds the main entrance; the right bay has a window at ground floor and a window to the first floor. The projecting right gable has a window in its left cheek at first floor, and a door and window in its right cheek.

The south elevation is five openings wide, with its left half projecting beyond the right. The advanced section has a door at left and two windows to its right at ground floor level, with two first-floor windows above. The right half has two ground-floor windows and a first-floor window at the right end.

The west elevation has two ground-floor windows and three windows at first-floor level.

The north elevation faces the road and comprises three sections, with the left and middle portions projecting beyond the right. The left section has two windows to each floor. The middle section is blank at ground floor but has a window at left and a door at right on the first floor; this door gives access to a lattice-girder footbridge (now without decking) leading to the road. The cheek of this middle section has a pair of ground-floor windows and a first-floor window. The right section has a ground-floor door and a first-floor window.

The platforms on both sides of the double track are constructed of random rubble with dressed granite copings along the edges. The north ends of the platforms terminate at the road bridge. A random rubble wall bounds the premises along the road. The east platform is accessed from the road by a wrought-iron pedestrian gate. The station house is accessed by a similar gate leading to the footbridge at first-floor level. A wrought-iron vehicle gate with a 'sunburst' design provides access to the station yard further along this side.

The building is recorded as derelict and is of industrial archaeological interest, though insufficient original fabric survives to merit listing.