Urlingford Courthouse — Main Street

Detached five-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1838-40, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay two-storey advanced end bays; single-bay single-storey recessed porches. Adapted to alternative use, 1996. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered "wallhead" chimney stacks (north) having concrete capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone dentil consoles on cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with rendered band to eaves. Camber-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (ground floor) with drag edged limestone ashlar channelled voussoirs framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sill course, and dragged cut-limestone surrounds with beaded hood mouldings on blind friezes framing eight-over-twelve timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing rendered infill centred on eight-over-twelve timber sash window. Square-headed door openings (porches) with cut-limestone step thresholds, and cut-limestone surrounds with monolithic pilasters supporting ogee-detailed pediments on consoles framing timber panelled double doors. Lunette windows openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing rendered infill. Interior including (ground floor): vestibules; offices retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers; full-height courtroom with round-headed niches centred on segmental-headed niche, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on ventilation rose. Set back from line of road with landscaped verge to front.