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Piltown Garda Síochána Station — Main Street

garda station/constabulary barracks
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Piltown Garda Síochána Station — Main Street
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Detached three-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1926, on a rectangular plan; single-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stacks on axis with ridge having dentilated stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rag edged dragged cut-limestone plinth with rendered flush band to eaves. Round-headed central open internal porch with tessellated ceramic tiled dragged cut-limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings centred on drag edged dragged cut-limestone double keystone. Pair of square-headed door openings centred on pair of round-headed window openings with timber surrounds framing timber panelled doors having overlights centred on timber casement windows. Round-headed flanking window openings in round-headed recesses with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone double keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone sills, monolithic mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Paired square-headed window openings in round-headed recesses (side elevations) with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone double keystones framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone sills, monolithic mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

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