court house — Main Street

Attached three-bay (four-bay deep) two-storey gable-fronted courthouse, built 1801, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, 1985, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched (gable-fronted) and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, roll topped cut-granite coping to gable on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers, rooflights, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods with replacement downpipes. Repointed snecked limestone wall to front (west) elevation with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite quoins to corners; coursed rubble limestone walls (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, cut-granite doorcase with ogee-detailed hood moulding on rosette-detailed fluted scroll consoles framing timber panelled double doors. Round-headed central window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sill, and red brick block-and-start surround framing timber fitting. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete flagged footpath to front.