Historic building in Newlawn

Detached three-bay single-storey RIC barracks with basement and attic, built c.1800. Gabled porch to front carried on arched possible former millrace and has carved timber bargeboards and finial and cast-iron cresting. Lean-to extension to rear and with remains of lean-to structure to northwest gable. Pitched slate roof with central rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered wall to front, smooth rendered elsewhere. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, doubled to front elevation, with stone sills. Double-leaf timber panelled front door. Walls of single-storey lean-to to northwest gable, now roofless.

Prior to being used as an RIC barracks and more recently a Garda station, this building is likely to have had an industrial function and may have been associated with the mill or distillery in the village. Although currently not in use this building is in good condition and retains interesting elements such as the archway beneath the porch which may date from an earlier use.