Survey Data
Reg No
40401602
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1940 - 1950
Coordinates
244699, 316609
Date Recorded
06/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station with projecting central porch, built c.1945, with four-bay rear elevation, combining living and administrative functions. Hipped concrete tile roof with wide overhanging eaves, pitched roof to porch. Rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Wet-dashed walls with smooth rendered plinth. Limestone sills to six-over-six timber sliding-sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Narrower four-over-four sash windows flanking porch. Round-headed arch to porch with plain rendered responds and recent timber panelled door. Set back from the road behind rubble stone boundary walls and square-profile piers.
Appraisal
Rural Garda Síochána stations differed in scale from their urban and suburban counterparts, consisting at their simplest of basic administrative and living accommodation. This example, in the form of a simple classically designed house extended to the rear, follows a standard type built throughout the country from the 1930s through to the 1950s. A symmetrically composed building, it is characterised by its domestic scale and good quality materials. The station is well suited to its surroundings and makes a strong contribution to the historic environment in the village of Redhills.