Rathfarnham Courthouse, court house in County Dublin

What is recorded here

Rathfarnham Courthouse looks so much like a small house that you’d prepare for a telling-off and a biscuit. Then you spot the courthouse name above you. Leave the biscuit; you’ll need both hands for your character references.

Detached three-bay single-storey courthouse, built 1912, with recessed entrance bay to either end. Vacant, 2002. Roughcast rendered walls with projecting smooth base. Timber casement windows to central three-bay section, timber sashes to sides and rere. Timber panelled door to north. Hipped tile roof with red brick chimney stack. High parapet to central section with cornice, dentil eaves course and recessed name plaque.

A pleasantly-detailed, restrained courthouse, almost domestic in scale, which shows the evolution of courthouse design, an is an important element of local history and of the strreetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11211004

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