Survey Data
Reg No
21400268
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Listowel Constabulary Barrack originally Listowel Bridewell
Original Use
RIC barracks
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
99122, 133912
Date Recorded
18/11/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay three-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1860, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced open internal porch to centre having round-headed opening approached by flight of steps. Now in use as Garda Station. Five-bay single-storey return to rear to north-west possibly originally bridewell with lunette window openings. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with cornices, cast-iron profiled gutters and replacement downpipes. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with raised quoins and moulded render string courses at first floor level and at eaves. Limestone sills to timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Projecting doorcase with banded rustication, having arched opening with timber panelled door. Retaining interior features. Section of cast-iron railings, c. 1860, to forecourt with curved gas lamp holder. Detached two-bay double-height rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1860, to north-west.