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The Old Barracks — Hagan's Court

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The Old Barracks — Hagan's Court
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Attached three-storey police station, built 1836, on a corner site with five bays to north and single bay to west. Closed in 1948 and now disused. Abutments to rear (south) to east and west, framing internal courtyard to south. Pitched and hipped slate roof with shouldered buff brick chimneystacks to east and west with lipped yellow clay pots. Eaves mounted uPVC gutters with downpipes to principal (west) and north elevations. Ashlar granite walling to principal and northern elevation with quarry-faced rubble-stone granite walling to west and rear (southern) elevations. Largely square-headed window openings with projecting granite sills and ashlar granite voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three to second floor, eight-over-eight to first floor; those to principal elevation, four-over-eight to second floor, six-over-six to first floor and four-over-four to ground floor. Four-over-four to abutment. Cast-iron grilles affixed to openings at ground floor. Openings to west of northern elevation segmental-headed with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs. Square-headed door openings to western abutment and northern elevation with reveals and recent timber panelled doors opening directly onto street. Some original interior features remains including flagstones to ground floor, timber panelled door leading to former cell blocks (now demolished), early twentieth-century stair and fireplaces and internal timber window shutters.

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