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The Tower House — Fiddown

RIC barracks
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The Tower House — Fiddown
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Detached four-bay two-storey Gothic-style Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, c.1850, on a corner site with single-bay two-storey flat-roofed projecting 'turret' to north-west on a chamfered square plan having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bay, and single-bay two-storey flat-roofed corner 'turret' to south-east on a chamfered square plan. In use, 1903. Part renovated with openings to south remodelled. Now in use as two attached two-bay two-storey houses. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to flanking bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roofs to 'turrets' not visible behind parapets. Unpainted roughcast walls with unpainted replacement roughcast walls to south having cut-stone battlemented parapets to 'turrets' on stringcourses. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and timber casement windows having paired lancet-arch arrangement. Lancet slit-style 'gun loop' apertures to 'turrets' with cut-stone surrounds, and fittings not discerned. Square-headed openings to south remodelled with replacement concrete sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of road in own grounds on a corner site with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

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