Survey Data
Reg No
50080018
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Clancy Barracks/Islandbridge Barracks
Original Use
Workshop
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
312917, 234194
Date Recorded
11/06/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached twenty-bay two-storey former military barracks, built c.1860, having three-bay breakfronts to front (south) and rear (north) elevations. Now in use as outbuilding. Hipped slate roof with tooled calp limestone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and granite eaves course. Snecked cut calp limestone walls, tooled quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings to first floor, six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Segmental-arched window openings to ground floor, timber framed windows. Tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds, dropped granite keystones and granite sills throughout. Some cast-iron railings over openings. Some openings blocked. Segmental-arched door openings, tooled calp limestone surrounds, dropped granite keystones, timber battened doors and small-pane overlights. Some replacement steel doors. Segmental-arched carriage arch to front, block-and-start cut granite surround, double-leaf timber battened door.
Appraisal
The artillery barracks at Islandbridge was built in 1798 and by the 1830s it could house 23 officers, 547 men and had stabling for 185 horses. It also had a hospital for 48 patients. One of three similar buildings which served as ordnance repair workshops, this building was a later addition to the barracks and reflects the ongoing development and importance of the barracks following the addition of a cavalry barracks in the mid-nineteenth century. Its repetition provides a strong sense of uniformity to the barracks, befitting its imposing military nature. Breakfronts enhance the symmetry of the plan, while regularity of design and proportion can be seen in the even fenestration arrangement. The complex was renamed Clancy Barracks following Independence in 1922.