Survey Data
Reg No
15618004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Store/warehouse
Historical Use
Unknown
Date
1770 - 1840
Coordinates
272722, 108202
Date Recorded
21/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey barrack store, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1933. Reconstructed, 1939. Vacated, 1986. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with lichen-spotted concrete ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on roughcast eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Set in shared grounds including relandscaped parade ground.
Appraisal
A barrack store contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Duncannon Fort complex with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint centred on a somewhat featureless doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the near-total reconstruction of the barrack store at the outbreak of "The Emergency" (1939-46). Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the restrained interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a barrack store forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a dramatic visual statement overlooking Waterford Harbour.