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Detached two-bay two-storey gable-fronted former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks on T-shaped plan, built c.1830, with flanking single-bay single-storey wings to either side (northwest and southeast). Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with raised limestone verges to gable ends and a projecting ashlar limestone eaves course that is brought across gable-fronted section as a projecting string course. Cut stone plaque to gable. Ashlar limestone chimneystacks to either gable end (northeast and southwest). Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to side elevation and replacement windows to the entrance front. Blind square-headed windows/recesses to first floor of entrance front. Square-headed doorcase to southwest bay of entrance front having flush ashlar limestone surround and a pedimented ashlar limestone canopy over supported on ashlar brackets. Timber sheeted door with plain overlight above. Set back from road with squared rubble limestone wall with crenellated coping over to road frontage. Located towards the centre of Ballinalack.
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