Survey Data
Reg No
11903102
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Kilberry Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
RIC barracks
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
266026, 198234
Date Recorded
13/11/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay single-storey gable-fronted former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks with half-dormer attic, c.1880, with single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking end bays. Renovated, c.1980, to accommodate part private residential and part commercial use. Now in residential use. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate (lean-to to flanking end bays behind parapet walls). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted to front (west) elevation. Unpainted to remainder. Rendered dressings to gable front forming pediment. Roughcast parapet walls to flanking end bays with rendered coping. Rendered fascia to end bay to left with inscribed lettering. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road. Forecourt to front.
Appraisal
Kilberry Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks (former) is a fine, Classically-proportioned middle-size building that, although altered in the late twentieth century, retains some of its original character. The building is of social and historic interest for its former use, representing an early civic building in the locality, and evidence of its subsequent use remains in the inscribed fascia that formed a simple shopfront to the flanking end bay to left. The building retains some early features, including a slate roof, and subtle decoration is introduced in the form of a simple pediment to the gable front. The structure is prominently located just off the side of the road and is a pleasant landmark in the locality.