house

Terraced four-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1775, possibly originally Royal Irish Constabulary barracks. Reroofed, c.1950, possibly with dormer attic added. Refenestrated. Now in part commercial use to ground floor. Pitched and hipped roof (gabled to dormer attic window) with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge, timber bargeboards to dormer attic window, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2004, on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Painted rendered walls with fascia to first floor between moulded stringcourses. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Series of three round-headed door openings to ground floor with carved cut-limestone Gibbsian doorcases, and timber panelled door (replacement glazed timber doors, c.1975, to outer bays) having fanlights. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A well-appointed middle-size building of idiosyncratic character in the streetscape on account of attributes including the series of round-headed openings to the ground floor forming an 'arcade' together with the distinctive profile of the roof: elegant Gibbsian doorcases displaying high quality stone masonry further enhance the architectural design value of the composition. However, despite the retention of most of the original form and massing the systematic replacement of much of the early fabric has led to the erosion of some of the historic character of the site. Possibly originally intended as a Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, thereby representing an early civic institution in Graiguenamanagh the building remains an important element of the architectural heritage of the locality.