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Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey former market house, built in 1826 by Lord Downshire to a design by Thomas Duff, with three-bay pedimented breakfronts to front and rear. Formerly used as a ballroom and museum. Now occupied by a courthouse to first floor and county council offices to ground and first floors. Located in the centre of O'Connell Square. Hipped and pitched slate and tiled roof hidden behind a parapet wall with a central four-faced clock. V-jointed limestone rustication to ground floor walls with ashlar limestone to upper floor. Random coursed limestone and sandstone to north façade. Ashlar bands. Square-headed openings to first floor timber sash windows. Ashlar stone surrounds and sill string course to south, east and west elevations. Tooled stone window surrounds to north upper floor. Round-headed recessed openings to ground floor which was originally open. Round-headed sash windows set within tooled stone surrounds with limestone sills. Replacement doors to south, east and west elevation with fanlights and tooled stone surrounds. Limestone steps to doors. Date of 1826 to keystone above main entrance. Random coursed limestone and sandstone surround wall to north with cast-iron railings.
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