Kildavin House

Detached five-bay single-storey constabulary barrack with half-dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a cruciform plan with single-bay full-height gabled projecting bays centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Vacant, 1911. "Improved", 1914, to accommodate alternative use. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a cruciform plan with pitched (gabled) artificial slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) artificial slate roof (breakfront), ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting louvered terracotta pots, central rooflights to rear (east) elevation, perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables with timber finials to apexes, and uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing replacement casement windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter.

A constabulary barrack representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one showing a pronounced domestic theme, confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed breakfront; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect with the principal "apartment" or reception room defined by a polygonal bay window; and the decorative timber work embellishing a multi-gabled roofline. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a constabulary barrack making a picturesque visual statement in a sylvan street scene.