Ballyhaunis Courthouse — Main Street

The saved account records: Detached four-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1875

The saved account records: extant 1893, on a symmetrical plan centred on two-bay double-height recessed breakfront with single-bay two-storey side elevations.

The saved account records: Replacement hipped fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, snecked rock faced limestone chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rock faced cut-limestone eaves.

The saved account records: Set back from line of street on a corner site with tuck pointed snecked rock faced boundary wall to perimeter having tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" coping supporting wrought iron railings.

Ballyhaunis Courthouse — Main Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A courthouse regarded as an important component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballyhaunis with the architectural value of the composition, one interpretable as a reduction of the Henry Brett (d. 1882)-designed Swinford Courthouse (1838-9; see 31207009), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.