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Detached courthouse, built 1843, with three-bay double-height centre block with sandstone giant order pedimented tetrastyle Ionic portico on stepped base and flanked by two-storey wings with engaged giant order pilasters and having entablature to front and to three-bay side elevations. Three-bay two-storey block of c.1860 projects from rear. M-profile hipped roof to main block, pitched to rear, with slate and artificial slate roofs with ashlar limestone chimneystacks. Ashlar limestone walls with carved surrounds to openings. Wings have round-headed windows to first floor, triple to side walls and square-headed to ground, with timber sliding sash windows, twelve-over-twelve pane to first floor of wings and to courtroom and eight-over-four pane to ground floor. Round-headed doorways to centre block with moulded limestone archivolts and imposts and tall timber panelled double-leaf doors. Pedimented doorcase with flight of steps to northeast elevation of rear block. Double-height entrance hall, two double-height polygonal courtrooms with Ionic screens to balconies, dogleg staircase of c.1860 at rear, panelled window shutters and limestone flags to side passages. Cast-iron railings and gates to site.
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