Survey Data
Reg No
16402904
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Barracks
Historical Use
Hostel
Date
1800 - 1805
Coordinates
305987, 186136
Date Recorded
13/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached eleven-bay three-storey barrack with four-storey tower projection to the west end, built in 1803, but partly demolished c.1995. The barrack was most recently used as a youth hostel but is now disused. The walls are largely finished in unpainted render with (mainly) painted stone dressings to the openings, whilst the pitched roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The roof of the tower is hidden behind a crenellated parapet. There are several doorways to the front ground at floor level, each with a segmental fanlight with "spoked" tracery. The window openings are a mixture of semi-circular headed and flat-headed and have either one over one or three over three timber sash frames. The windows to the tower projection have been blocked up. The barrack is set in open countryside with its grounds surrounded by a tall, rubble-built perimeter wall with a elliptical-headed carriage gateway to the west.
Appraisal
A barrack which, although partly demolished, retains much of its original character. The barrack is of additional interest as one of Wicklow's early 19th-century military road fortifications.