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Bennettsbridge Garda Síochána Station

garda station/constabulary barracks
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Bennettsbridge Garda Síochána Station
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Detached three-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1927, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay three-stage turrets on circular plans; three-bay (east) or single-bay (west) two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with lichen-spotted clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth including roughcast walls (turrets) with rendered battlemented parapets on dentil corbels; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish (remainder) on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement centred on square-headed window opening (first floor), cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows centred on eight-over-eight timber sash window. Lancet window openings (turrets) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Road fronted.

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