Wexford County Gaol — Spa Well Road

County Gaol complex including: Detached nine-bay three-storey gaol block, built 1851-3, on a rectangular plan; nine-bay three-storey rear (south) elevation. Occupied, 1901. Closed, 1903. Vacant, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered sneck-marked lime rendered coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" walls with cut- or hammered "Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with rendered red brick block-and-start surround framing cast-iron door having overlight behind cast-iron bars. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings behind cast-iron bars. Square-headed central half-landing window openings (south) with cut-granite surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings behind cast-iron bars. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings behind cast-iron bars. Pointed-arch window openings (gables) with cut-granite sills, interlocking timber Y-mullions, and rendered red brick block-and-start surrounds framing cast-iron bars over fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Interior including central atrium with timber boarded galleries on cast-iron spandrels; and limewashed barrel-vaulted cells. Set in shared grounds.