Castlecomer Barrack — Barrack Street

Detached nine-bay three-storey over part basement barrack, built 1801-2, on a symmetrical plan centred on three-bay three-storey breakfront; nine-bay three-storey rear (west) elevation. Repaired, 1837-8. Vacant, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on strutted King post timber construction with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered red chimney stacks having cut-granite corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered base on lichen-spotted chamfered plinth; roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Segmental-headed central door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step thresholds, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones with fittings boarded-up retaining fanlights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing three-over-three timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed door openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite step thresholds, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones with fittings now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (first floor), cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing three-over-three timber sash windows without horns. Set in unkempt grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having mass-concrete chamfered capping.