Clifden Courthouse — Galway Road

Detached five-bay two-storey court house, built 1837, having recessed single-bay porches to each end. Hipped slate roof to main block, with red-brick chimneystack having render coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods with tooled limestone brackets to eaves over raised render frieze. Flat roofs to porches having tooled limestone cornice over raised render frieze. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having tooled limestone plinth, tooled limestone plat band/sill course to first floor of main block continuing at impost level to porch end walls. Square-headed openings to first floor of front, south, elevation, having tooled limestone surrounds with frieze and cornice. Eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations of main block. Camber-headed openings to end bays of ground floor of front elevation, having tooled limestone sills, recessed rendered reveals, lined-and-ruled voussoirs and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Blind square-headed openings to ground floor of front elevation, central opening having tooled limestone sill and fixed four-pane timber window. Square-headed openings to rear walls of porches having tooled limestone sills and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to east elevation of east porch, having tooled limestone sill, tripartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight. Round-headed opening to west elevation of west porch, having spoked fanlight. Blind or blocked square-headed half-basement opening to west wall of west porch, having tooled limestone surround. Square-headed openings to porch entrances having tooled limestone surrounds comprising pilasters and moulded pediment with scroll brackets, east porch having replacement timber panelled door with side-panel and overlight and west having timber panelled double-leaf door with flagstone approach. Situated within rendered enclosing wall with rendered gate piers and recent wrought-iron double-leaf gate.