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Garda Station — Kilmainham Lane

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Garda Station — Kilmainham Lane
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Double-height single-storey former stable complex, built c.1865. Comprising central five-bay block with paired returns to rear (south) elevation, flanked by multiple-bay ranges to east and west with lean-to returns to south, arranged around central courtyard. Recent extensions to east and west elevations of west block, to west elevation of east block. Now in use as garda station. Pitched slate roofs with limestone coping, red brick chimneystacks and red brick eaves courses, cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked dressed calp limestone walls, dressed quoins, some red brick quoins. Blind arcade to front (north) elevation of central stable block, dressed limestone voussoirs, square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows, some with cast-iron railings. Square-headed window openings to east and west ranges with limestone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and mixed six-over-six pane timber sash windows, two-over-two pane timber sash windows, tripartite six-over-six pane timber sash windows, and later glass brick windows. Entrances through recent extensions. Rubble limestone boundary wall to rear (south), double-leaf wrought-iron gates to site entrance, flanked by square-profile calp limestone piers, with chamfered corners and limestone capping, in turn flanked by snecked calp limestone walls with limestone capping.

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