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Detached three-bay two-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1863, having an advanced gabled central breakfront and with half dormers to attic. Possibly originally used as an estate worker’s house, now in use as private house. Pitched natural slate roofs with decorative red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and pierced scalloped timber bargeboards to gables. Snecked rock-faced stone walls over dressed stone plinth with dressed limestone quoins to the corners of main body of building and to breakfront. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds having carved/chamfered detail to lintels, dressed limestone sills, timber and metal frame windows with quarry glazing. Four centered arch entrance opening, with timber battened door. Square-headed sidelights with dressed limestone surrounds and fixed timber frames flanking entrance, and also to side elevations of advanced bay. Accessed via stone step. Landscaped garden to front, with remains of snecked stone boundary wall, and wrought-iron gate. Located to the centre of Ardagh, adjacent to The Clock Tower (13312017).
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