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The Old Barracks — Straffan

RIC barracks
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The Old Barracks — Straffan
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Detached three-bay single-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks with half-dormer attic, c.1875, retaining early aspect with single-bay two-stage engaged corner turret to north-east on a polygonal plan. Subsequently converted to residential use. Now disused. Hipped roof with slate (gablets to half-dormer attic windows; polygonal to turret). Rolled clay ridge tiles (crested to main ridge). Red brick chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Decorative timber bargeboards with finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbels. Squared rubble stone walls. Pointed-arch openings. Stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. 2/2 timber sash windows. Gun loops to top stage of turret in cut-stone surrounds. Pointed-arch door opening with hipped slate canopy over on carved timber corbels. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Rubble stone boundary wall to boundary with monolithic piers having wrought iron gate.

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