Survey Data
Reg No
21817005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Oola Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
House
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1880 - 1890
Coordinates
182427, 142055
Date Recorded
07/11/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built in 1884, having porch to front (south-west) elevation. Now in use as garda station. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, painted brick eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course and red brick quoins. Square-headed openings having limestone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to porch, north-west elevation, with red brick surround and timber battened door. Rendered steps to entrance. Pair of roughly dressed square-profile limestone piers to south-west having red brick quoins and single-leaf metal gate. Snecked limestone boundary walls with render copings, pair of double-leaf cast-iron gates to south-west.
Appraisal
This large scale building offers variety of style and form to the streetscape of Oola. The vertically emphasized façade is enhanced by the brick eaves, quoins, tall chimneystacks and its form is enhanced by the retention of features such as the timber sash windows and limestone sills. The boundary walls and gated enhance the composition of the site.