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Defence Forces Headquarters — Infirmary Road

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Defence Forces Headquarters — Infirmary Road
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Detached three-bay three-storey former barracks entrance building, built c.1890. Hipped slate roof with central valley. Red and yellow brick cornice to eaves. Red brick chimneystacks having stepped profile and yellow and black decorative courses. Red brick walls having yellow and black brick decorative courses, cut granite platband over snecked ashlar limestone to ground floor. Rusticated granite quoins. Segmental-arched window openings having rounded reveals, black brick keystone detail and cut granite sills. Block-and-start red and black brick surrounds to ground floor windows. Window openings boarded up. Round-headed door opening with carved granite surround having carved cornice supported by brackets and Gibbsian surround with carved keystone. Entrance opening has been infilled with stone and brick. Single granite step from entrance to footpath. Front (west) elevation stands slightly forward of snecked limestone boundary wall.

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