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Detached three-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, designed 1873; built 1873; opened 1874, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Attacked, 1921. Reconstructed, 1926, to accommodate alternative use. Closed, 1956. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roof now missing with rendered chimney stacks having ogee-detailed stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch) with clay ridge tiles. Part ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening in camber-headed recess with benchmark-inscribed step threshold, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds with tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
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