Survey Data
Reg No
15703213
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Killurin Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
RIC barracks
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1901
Coordinates
296942, 126565
Date Recorded
01/10/2007
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey constabulary barrack with half-dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, timber bargeboards to gablets, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast wall to front (east) elevation; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (remainder). Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having overpanel. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.
Appraisal
A constabulary barrack representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Wellington Bridge Constabulary Barrack (1863) in Wellington Bridge (see 15704533), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression; and the miniature gablets embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a constabulary barrack making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Timothy Maher (----), 'Sergeant' (NA 1901); and (1911) by "J.A.B." (----), 'Sergeant [in] Royal Irish Constabulary' (NA 1911).