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Detached five-bay two-storey castellated court house, built c.1830, with gabled breakfronts to end bays. Now also serving as county council offices. Historically in prison use. Set back from street. Hipped and double-pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, hidden behind castellated parapet, with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with tooled limestone plinth, string course and eaves courses. Variety of round and square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround, fanlight and timber panelled doors. Interior entrance hall with run-in-situ plaster cornice and timber staircase. Wrought-iron railings to front site set to ashlar limestone wall with cut stone coping. Rear site bounded by random coursed wall, accessed through square-headed arch set to castellated ashlar limestone wall. Pedestrian gate set to rendered wall to north.
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