Dunsany Constabulary Barrack — Dunsany Crossroads

Detached three-bay single-storey constabulary barrack with half-dormer attic, c.1870, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront. Occupied, 1901. Vacated, 1906. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack on chamfered plinth having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, cut-limestone coping to gables on kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed snecked limestone walls on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone plinth with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central window opening in tripartite arrangement with cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Paired square-headed "loops" with cut-limestone surrounds. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone lintels framing timber casement windows behind cast-iron bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Road fronted on a corner site.