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Former gaol wall with three-storey keep-like entrance, built between 1826 and 1830, with segmental carriage arch opening to north-east. Modern mansard style roof above front elevation with dormer windows. Southern-light roof to rear mid twentieth-century factory. Dressed snecked limestone wall with tooled corbels supporting overhanging parapet. Entrance keep to south-west with towers flanking pointed-arched door opening with recessed double timber panelled doors. Arch above connecting towers with plaque. Plaque reads: 'The first stone of this prison was laid by Charles William Baron Tullamore on the 13th day of September in the year of our Lord 1826 under the 7th year of the reign of his most gracious majesty George the fourth. Commissioners Lord Baron Tullamore M. P., Colonel Thomas Bernard M. P., William Trench, John Head Drought, Valentine Bennett and Francis Berry Esquires. Engineer John Killay. Contractors Henry Mullins and McMahon, John Rafter Sculp.' Decorative machioclations, crenellations and loops to keep. Modern factory units to rear of site. Set back from road with front site bounded by cast-iron railings on battered ashlar limestone wall with pulvinated coping. Site accessed through cast-iron gate piers with decorative axe finial.
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