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The Bridewell

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The Bridewell
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The Bridewell in Town Parks gave a prison entrance grand stone pillars and a Roman-style window. You could arrive between two guards and still briefly wonder whether you ought to have brought a bottle.

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Detached five-bay two-storey former bridewell, built in 1837, with central pedimented breakfront, with flanking single-storey bay to the east and with carriage arch to the west. Now in use as a barracks. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Squared limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Segmental-arched window openings with timber sash windows, ashlar surrounds and stone sills. Diocletian window and stone doorcase with tapering pilaster and entablature to breakfront. Stone plinth walls to site.
This building is of apparent architectural design and detail. The central pedimented breakfront is a notable feature of the building. The building retains many interesting features and materials, such as the Diocletian window and segmental-arched window openings which are articulated with ashlar limestone surrounds.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14313116

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; August Schwerdfeger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Stephen Keaveny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mark Duncan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; XNukes, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Picea_breweriana_Canyon_Creek_Lakes_1.jpg : Tom Hilton derivative work: MPF, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at; Robert Adam, Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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