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Collins Barracks — Benburb Street

officer's house
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Collins Barracks — Benburb Street
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Pair of detached four-bay two-storey former officers' houses, built c.1900, having gabled end-bays to rear (north) elevation, recently renovated and now in use as offices and joined by central glass extension. M-profile hipped slate roofs, terracotta ridge tiles and finials, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Half-dormer windows to front (south) elevations. Timber bargeboards to dormers. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, cast-iron ventilation openings. Segmental-arched window openings with red brick voussoirs, granite sills and timber sash windows: eight-over-eight pane to front, one-over-one pane to side (east and west) elevations, six-over-six pane and four-over-four pane to rear. Four-over-four pane single sidelight to each door to front. Segmental-arched door openings to front, red brick voussoirs, half-glazed timber panelled doors, timber canopy having timber consoles and dentillated cornice over. Cast-iron bootscrapes to front of doors.

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