Survey Data
Reg No
15703932
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
272410, 115602
Date Recorded
13/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1927, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on rendered chimney stack having red brick English bond stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick cornice. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered base. Square-headed central window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.
Appraisal
A Garda Síochána station erected to a standardised design by the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Campile with the architectural value of the composition, a neo-Georgian "house" recalling the contemporary Castlebridge Garda Síochána Station (1932; see 15614005); and Carrickbyrne Garda Síochána Station (1936; see 15703520), confirmed by such attributes as the symmetrical frontage centred on Wyatt-style tripartite glazing patterns; and the pedimented roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a Garda Síochána station making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene.