Kickham Barracks — Davis Road

Western part of military barracks, built 1876, comprising roughly coursed rubble sandstone wall enclosing grounds, with current main entrance along western perimeter. Decorative cast-iron railings and marble plaque to Hugh O'Neill to Davis Road perimeter. Gymnasium block to northwest, having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble sandstone walls with roughly dressed quoins, having string course to east gable. Square-headed openings to long, north and south elevations, with brick surrounds and timber casement windows. Semi-circular window to east gable with alternating brick and stone surround and spoked timber fanlight. Segmental-headed doorway to east gable with rendered block-and-start surround and timber door with step. Store to northern perimeter having pitched corrugated-metal roof with brick chimneystack, coursed dressed sandstone walls with brick quoins. Square-headed openings with limestone lintels and sills and brick jambs and bars to windows. Timber battened door with paned over-light and widened vehicular entrance to south gable. Handball alley to west is reuse of partly demolished older building, having rubble sandstone walls and segmental-arch vehicular entrance with dressed limestone voussoirs and jambs. Multiple-bay block to east of ball alley, having pitched slate and corrugated-metal roof with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings with timber battened doors and timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows and some high-level timber casement windows, all windows having limestone sills. Windows to north elevation have cut sandstone surrounds and one doorway and segmental carriage arch to south elevation have cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Three-bay single-storey limestone house to southwest perimeter has pitched slate roof with dressed stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed snecked stone walls having square-headed openings with dressed stone voussoirs and cut-stone sills with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber door with paned timber over-light. Barred nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows to street elevation. Flag-pole and single-storey rendered blocks to centre of western area, surrounded by lawns. Sculpted limestone high cross, erected c.1885, to south of flag-pole with geometric ornament to north face, to memory of soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Egypt.