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Wexford Infantry Barrack — Barrack Street

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Wexford Infantry Barrack — Barrack Street
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Detached fifteen-bay two-storey soldiers' quarters blockhouse, opened 1725, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay (four-bay deep) two-storey projecting end bays; twelve-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation centred on two-bay two-storey gabled projecting lower breakfront. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched and hipped artificial slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on pitched artificial slate roof (west), ridge tiles, grey brick Running bond (south) or red brick Running bond (north) chimney stacks centred on paired grey brick Running bond chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, coping to gables, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Patched roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings (end bays) with cut-granite thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors having overlights. Paired square-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite monolithic surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings behind wrought iron bars. Set on an elevated site with roughcast red brick Running bond piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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