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Detached thirteen-bay two-storey over basement stone former gaol, built c. 1850. Now in use as civic offices. Rectangular-plan with square-plan full-height tower to south-east. Pitched slate roof, (pyramidal to tower), clay ridge tiles, stone corbelled chimneystack with tooled limestone quoins and string course, tooled limestone verge coping, rooflights, moulded cast-iron gutters on limestone corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes. Square-and-snecked limestone and sandstone walling, tooled limestone quoins and string course. Segmental-headed window openings, block-and-start red brick jambs, brick lintels with chamfered soffits, granite sills, painted timber fixed light windows, wrought-iron bars; painted six-over-six timber sliding sash window and round-headed window with three-over-six sliding sash window and fanlight to south. Segmental-headed door openings, block-and-start red brick jambs, brick lintels with chamfered soffits, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, timber door to west door, overlights. Part of former complex with buildings to west, east and south.
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