Ballinrobe Market House — Main Street

Attached five-bay two-storey market house with attic, "restored" 1752; extant 1767, on a rectangular plan with three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Closed, 2009. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof, pressed or rolled lead ridges centred on louvered timber "cupola" on an octagonal plan, part lead or zinc-covered cut-limestone "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" coping to gable framing clock face in cut-limestone surround, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners centred on cut-limestone stringcourse (first floor); part ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Series of five segmental-headed openings (ground floor) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step thresholds, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone padstones framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having fanlights. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses (first floor) with square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation centred on square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement, cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with nine-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation centred on nine-over-six timber sash window having three-over-two sidelights. Interior including (ground floor): groin vaulted ceilings on polished cut-limestone pillars; (first floor): vaulted courtroom with limestone flagged floor, timber benches (south) on drag edged tooled cut-limestone steps, wrought iron screen, and timber panelled benches (north) centred on broken pedimented judge's bench. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.