Tuam Courthouse — Dublin Road

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey courthouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay two-storey shallow breakfront. Closed, 2005. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping with rendered chimney stack (north) having concrete capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast wall to front (south) elevation on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone plinth with cut-limestone monolithic cornice on blind frieze below parapet; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Round-headed central window opening with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings with fitting now boarded up. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-limestone monolithic mullions, and cut-limestone monolithic surround with fittings now boarded up. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Interior including full-height courtroom retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled splayed reveals or shutters, timber boarded wainscoting with timber dado rail, and timber boarded jury benches approached by flights of timber steps with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banisters terminating in ball finial-topped turned timber newels. Set back from road in relandscaped grounds with remains of drag edged tooled limestone ashlar boundary wall to perimeter having drag edged tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" coping.