RIC barracks — Main Street South

Detached five-bay three-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, c.1870, retaining early fenestration with two-bay three-storey advanced end bay to right (north-east) having oriel window to centre first floor on a triangular plan and single-bay three-storey recessed end bay to left (south-west). Renovated, c.1985, with interior partly remodelled to accommodate use as hotel. Hipped roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Irregular coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners and string/sill courses to each floor. Shallow segmental-headed window openings (paired to left). Cut-stone sill courses. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. 6/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to oriel window on cut-stone corbels. 6/6 timber sash windows. Shallow segmental-headed door opening approached by flight of three cut-stone steps. Cut-stone block-and-start surround and lintel. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Concrete brick cobbled forecourt to front.Gateway, c.1870, to east comprising pair of cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings.