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Newcastle West Courthouse — Bishop Street

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Newcastle West Courthouse — Bishop Street
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Detached five-bay double-height courthouse, dated 1841, having breakfront end bays to front (south-east) and later four-bay lean-to addition to rear (north-west). Hipped slate roof with timber clad overhanging eaves with bracketed soffit, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Artificial slate roof to addition. Channelled ashlar limestone with plinth to ground floor and end-bays of front elevation, having rusticated limestone quoins to end bays. Snecked dressed limestone walls with plinth and quoins elsewhere. Tooled limestone sill band to front and side (north-east, south-west) elevations having central tooled limestone date plaque to front elevation. Recessed bays having tooled limestone voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds. Round-headed recesses to window bays throughout, having dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs. Rusticated limestone surrounds and voussoirs to end-bay recesses with tooled limestone balconies on scrolled brackets above door openings. Roughcast rendered walls to addition. Round-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having tooled limestone surrounds and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Rendered red brick surrounds to rear elevation openings. Blind round-headed window to side (north-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with rendered red brick surrounds and tooled limestone sills to rear and side (south-west) elevations, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals and sills to addition having timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with tooled limestone stepped approaches and tooled limestone surrounds to front elevation, having tooled limestone lintels and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Square-headed window opening with timber panelled door to side (north-east) elevation of addition. Located on elevated platform with dressed limestone enclosing and retaining walls. Round-headed gate piers to front with wrought-iron gate. Square-profile piers with tooled limestone and rendered pyramidal capping supporting double-leaf wrought-iron gates to south-west.

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