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Dunfanaghy Garda Station — Main Street

RIC barracks
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Dunfanaghy Garda Station — Main Street
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Detached three-bay three-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1870, having single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south), single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the east elevation, , and with single-storey block to the west. Now in use as a Garda Station. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with projecting rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods with three stepped two-stage rendered chimneystacks (on to either end and one to the rear pitch). Hipped artificial roofs to porch and single-storey blocks. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed windows openings having painted stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground and first floor level with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at second floor level. Square-headed window openings to the south elevation of central porch having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways to the east elevation of front porch, and to the south elevation of later porch to the east elevation, having replacement timber doors. Set back from road to the west end of the Main Street, Dunfanaghy. Coursed and squared rubble stone boundary wall to the south having chamfered ashlar(?) and smooth rendered coping over. Gateways to site having squared and coursed rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with chamfered coping over. Gravel forecourt to the south-east of site. Modern radio mast to the north. Rendered and rubble stone walls to the east and north-east.

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