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Mill Mount Barracks — Barrack Street

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Mill Mount Barracks — Barrack Street
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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement stone former officers' quarters, built c. 1810, now used as a museum. Hand ball alley attached to north. Hipped slate roof, double-pile to north, cement rendered ridge and hip tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack and smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutter fixed to tooled ashlar limestone corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipe. Squared-and-snecked stone walling, tooled ashlar limestone plinth, ashlar limestone block-and-start quoins, cast-iron wall ties. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, dressed ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds and lintel, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows; painted timber casement windows to basement. Square-headed door opening, dressed ashlar limestone block-and-start surround, limestone lintel, six-paned overlight, varnished timber vertically-sheeted double doors; square-headed door opening to north elevation, dressed ashlar limestone block-and-start surround, limestone lintel, timber panelled door, accessed via flight of limestone steps. Situated on slope facing Millmount Square, bounded to south by squared-and-snecked plinth wall, saddle-back limestone coping surmounted by painted wrought-iron railings, 1940s telephone box to south.

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