Tipperary Gaol — Saint Michael's Street

Group of three bridewell buildings, built c.1845, comprising two three-bay two-storey blocks flanking central three-bay block at right angles to others and having half-hexagonal east end elevation. Formerly bridges connecting blocks at first floor level. Hipped slate roofs with dressed limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods, having rendered chimneystacks to central block. Roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings, with tooled limestone lintels, jambs and sills and having mainly fixed timber windows to flanking blocks, timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to short elevations of central block and to one first floor barred rear window of flanking blocks. Four-over-four pane windows elsewhere. Timber shutters visible to rear of central block. Four square-headed door openings to each block, three to ground floors and one to first floors, with tooled limestone surrounds, plinth blocks and tooled stone threshold, with replacement timber panelled doors. Former exercise area to rear enclosed by round-plan rubble limestone walls.