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Detached three-bay two-storey former court house and market house, built between c. 1819 - 1826 and altered c. 1880, having pedimented breakfront to the centre of the main elevation (northeast) and single-bay two-storey return to rear (southwest). Flat-roofed addition to the northwest elevation of return with wrought-iron water tank over. Now in use as a library. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed limestone eaves course. Tooled limestone masonry walls to ground floor and rusticated coursed limestone walls to first floor. Carved limestone string courses, plinth course and dressed limestone block quoins. Carved limestone plaque with Shuldham family coat of arms to pediment. Elliptical-arched openings to ground floor having carved limestone voussoirs, archivolts and keystones with dressed limestone impost course. Timber battened doors with cast-iron strap hinges to central and southeast openings and replacement door to northwest opening. Elliptical-arched recessed panels to first floor with carved limestone voussoirs and surrounds having square-headed openings with replacement windows with limestone sills, those to the sides now blocked. Set back from the road to the centre of Ballymahon.
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