New Ross Courthouse — Priory Street

Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile courthouse, built 1832, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay (three-bay deep) double-height projecting breakfront with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; five-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Part refenestrated, 1998. Closed, 2005. Now disused. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack on axis with ridge having stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite plinth with rendered, ruled and lined monolithic "pilasters" to corners. Square-headed door openings below blind panels with lichen-spotted limestone flagged thresholds, and cut-granite surrounds framing timber panelled doors. Round-headed window openings (breakfront) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening (porch) with monolithic surround framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into courtroom with timber panelled double doors; full-height courtroom with glazed timber panelled internal porch (west), timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting shallow timber dado rail, timber panelled benches, timber panelled Grand Jury galleries on cast-iron pillars, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted coping.