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The Barracks House — Blackwater

garda station/constabulary barracks
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The Barracks House — Blackwater
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What is recorded here

Detached three-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, "surveyed" 1924; rebuilt 1925, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (west). Closed, ----. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six sash windows having exposed sash boxes replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in relandscaped grounds with roughcast stepped boundary wall to perimeter having rounded coping.

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