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Detached thirteen-bay two-storey over basement with attic stone former gaol, built c. 1850, now used by the Civil Defence. Rectangular-plan with square-plan full-height tower to north-west. Pitched slate roof (pyramidal to tower), clay ridge tiles, stone corbelled chimneystack and tooled limestone quoins and string course, tooled limestone verge coping, rooflights, moulded cast-iron gutters on limestone corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes. Squared-and-snecked sandstone and limestone walling, tooled limestone string course. Segmental-headed window openings, block-and-start red brick jambs, brick lintels with chamfered soffits, granite sills, painted timber fixed frame windows, wrought-iron bars; six-over-six timber sliding sash window and round-headed window opening, three-over-six sliding sash window with fanlight to north elevation. Segmental-headed door opening to north, block-and-start brick jambs, brick lintel with chamfered soffit, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, overlight; seven concrete steps to door forming bridge over basement, painted stone walling to bridge, wrought-iron handrails. Part of former complex with buildings to west, east and south.
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