Carrickbyrne Garda Síochána Station

Detached five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1936, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped profiled fibre-cement tile roof on a U-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) profiled fibre-cement tile roofs (end bays), clay ridge tiles, red brick English bond chimney stacks having shallow stringcourses below concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered base. Square-headed central window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement four-over-four sash windows. Set back from line of road with hedge boundary to perimeter.

A Garda Síochána station erected to a standardised design by the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Carrickbyrne with the architectural value of the composition, a neo-Georgian "house" recalling the contemporary Campile Garda Síochana Station (1927; see 15703932); and Castlebridge Garda Síochána Station (1932; see 15614005), confirmed by such attributes as the symmetrical frontage centred on Wyatt-style tripartite glazing patterns; and the pedimented roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a Garda Síochána station making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.