Longford Courthouse — Main Street

Attached five-bay three-storey over basement court house with attic storey and central pediment/gable-fronted section, originally built 1791 - 5. Formerly also in use as the Longford Grand Jury headquarters. Possibly containing earlier fabric from a private house to site. Substantially altered c. 1830, and between 1859 and 1861 with the addition of the upper floor. Pair of single-storey bridewell extensions added to either side of street entrance c. 1900, demolished in 2005. Flat roofed extension to the rear, built c. 1830 and demolished in 2005-6. Under restoration 2005-6. Hipped and pitched slate roofs, hidden behind raised parapet with moulded cornice, and with two ashlar limestone chimneystacks having moulded cut stone coping. Rendered walls with raised rusticated cut stone quoins to corners. Cut stone string course at second floor level. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, square-headed openings to the first floor and segmental-headed window openings to the second floor, all with cut sills and moulded stone architraves. Keystone detail to ground floor window openings. Square-headed doorway with timber panelled double doors. Pedimented Doric entrance porch with freestanding Doric columns and triglyph frieze. Flight of cut stone steps to front flanked by rendered having moulded stone coping over. Venetian window to first floor, above doorcase, with moulded surrounds; paired around-headed windows openings over to first floor having shared sill and oculus opening over to gable. Set slightly back from street to the west side of Main Street, Longford Town.