Survey Data
Reg No
21521082
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
New Barracks
Original Use
Barracks
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
157148, 155907
Date Recorded
29/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seventeen-bay two-storey former officers quarters, built c. 1870, on the site of a former quarry adjacent to the original Sarsfield Barracks (New Barracks). With a half-dormer second floor level, a rhythmic staccato composition of wide gabled breakfront end bays, and five single-bay full-height gabled entrance breakfronts between each two-bay elevation. Converted to private housing, c. 2000. Pitched Spanish slate roof with intersecting dormer breakfront gables. Multiple shouldered limestone chimneystacks with plain clay pots. Squared coursed and snecked rock-faced limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressing, including gable parapet copings and door and windows surrounds. Paired square-headed window openings in segmental-arched recesses, and camber-headed window openings elsewhere with limestone ashlar reveals, flush canted limestone sills and multiple variations of reproduction timber sash windows, c. 2000. Located facing east onto a large playing field originally the site of a quarry. Galvanised steel enclosures to rear, c. 2000. Modern housing and apartment developments.
Appraisal
Located within a gradually developing site most likely associated with Sarsfield Barrack to the north. This fine somewhat regimented structure, has been successfully adapted to contemporary living.