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Detached bridewell in complex with and at rear of courthouse, built c.1862. Comprising six-bay two-storey building with canted turret-like entrance projection to rear with later octagonal stairs tower attached. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with dressed stone quoins and block-and-start surrounds to openings. Vents to upper rear wall. Replacement timber casement windows to front elevation with block-and-start surrounds, stone sills and wrought-iron bars to ground and to part of first floor. Chamfered round-headed narrow lights to upper rear wall, with dressed stone surrounds and leaded glazing and square-headed timber sliding sash windows to canted projection. Six-panel timber door. Limestone walls enclose two exercise yards to rear.
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