Cathal Brugha Barracks — Grove Road

Attached five-bay single-storey guard house, built c.1860, having veranda to front (east) elevation, and two-storey red brick extension to north elevation. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked tooled limestone walls with dressed quoins, blind arcade to rear (west) and south elevations comprising dressed limestone piers and arches, with red brick laid in English bond to walls to arcade to rear, limestone plinth course and carved impost course. Timber display cases attached to walls. Square-headed window openings having granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to rear, having granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Clerestory windows, square-headed to front and segmental-headed to rear and to front of red brick extension, with granite sills, timber framed windows and cast-iron bars. Square-headed door openings to front, now blocked, with cast-iron bootscrape. Square-headed door opening to rear, with render reveal and timber door. Segmental-headed door opening to front of extension, having timber door. Render platform having limestone kerbing and cast-iron columns supporting glazed veranda to front and south elevations. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates flanked by square-profile channelled granite columns, with matching pedestrian gate to west, matching railings on snecked calp limestone plinth wall with granite coping to west, and snecked calp limestone walls to north elevation of complex. Rubble calp limestone walls to north of west of complex, with inscribed granite plaque having boundary marker.