Survey Data
Reg No
20902902
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
117623, 97464
Date Recorded
17/08/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey Garda Station, built 1939, having five-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor, single-storey three-bay extension to east, and flanking single-bay extensions to south-west and north-west. Pitched artificial slate roof having painted roughcast rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to first floor and tripartite eight-over-twelve pane and one three-over-six pane to ground floor, and three-over-six pane windows to south-west block. Recent timber panelled doors to flanking blocks. Rubble stone boundary walls to garden to front, with rubble stone piers and replacement metal gates.
Appraisal
This building is a fine example of a country Garda Station built in the Domestic Revival tradition of the early 1900s. This style grew as a reaction against the mass-produced and poor quality furnishings and joinery of the later Victorian period. This revival is depicted in the simple horned timber sash windows of this classically-proportioned structure. The Revival was a feature of the strengthening regard shown to vernacular traditions at the time.