Survey Data
Reg No
22117034
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Victoria Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
Barracks
In Use As
Office
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
220494, 122535
Date Recorded
25/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached nine-bay three-storey military barracks, built c.1875, with multiple-bay three-storey block to rear built 1992, forming L-plan with front block, and having recent three-storey hipped roof extension to rear elevation. In use since 1927 as county council offices. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, smooth to upper floors and channelled with render corner pilasters to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors and Tuscan portico comprising rendered columns, frieze and cornice with lettering and date.
Appraisal
This large-scale building is very prominent on Emmet Street and forms a pairing with the somewhat similar Garda station, almost formerly part of Victoria Militia Barracks. Its façade is enlivened by the channelled render, render pilasters and the Doric portico that lend the building an air of classicism and enhance the regular design of the structure.