Reg No
22123008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Carrick-on-Suir Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
240263, 121955
Date Recorded
16/05/2005
Date Updated
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Detached six-bay three-storey former RIC barracks, with central two-bay gable-fronted projection, built 1836, with three-storey return, three-storey flat-roofed and two hipped two-storey extensions to rear, and single-storey extension to east and rear. Now in use as Garda station. Pitched slate roof, hipped to return, with stone copings, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins and dressed limestone eaves course, and continuous sill course to first floor of gable front. Limestone date plaque to façade dated 1836 in Roman numerals. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Two entrance openings to façade, flanking gable-front, with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and double-leaf timber battened door with plain fanlight and recessed within round-heading openings. Stone steps and ramp access. Situated in tarmacadamed grounds with roughcast rendered capped boundary wall to front, and concrete block boundary wall to rear. Site shared by courthouse to west.
This imposing former RIC barracks on a prominent corner site retains much of its original character despite the replacement of its windows. The symmetry of openings creates a pleasing façade, and symmetry of chimneystacks gives a distinctive roofline. It forms part of a functional group with the adjacent courthouse.