barracks

End-of-terrace double-pile three-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1802, having two-bay single-storey flat-roofed block to front (south-east). Formerly forming part of barracks, now divided into four houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Bitumen roof to front block with rendered parapet wall and wrought-iron railings. Roughcast rendered walls having rendered sill bands to front and rear (north-west) elevations. Cast-iron bracing plates and rendered platbands to front elevation flanking window openings. Rendered walls to side (north-east) elevation of single-storey block. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills, rendered sill to single-storey block. uPVC casement windows with blocked windows to second floors of front and rear elevations. Square-headed door openings to front elevations. Rendered stepped approach to house with iron hand rail, having raised render surround to door opening with keystone, rendered step and uPVC door surmounted by overlight. uPVC door to front elevation of single-storey addition.

This imposing house forms an integral part of building which was leased as a Militia Barracks until 1873. It was subsequently used as houses, a barracks, a Free State Army Billet and a technical school. Its varied uses have ensured that it has played a significant role in the both the town and county. Now in use as a terrace of four houses, it occupies a dominant position in the streetscape, being highly visible from all directions, but particularly from the south.