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court house — Cong

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court house — Cong
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Detached three-bay single-storey courthouse or petty sessions house, dated 1853, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Vacant, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch central door opening below cut-limestone date stone ("1853") with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded door. Lancet flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having lattice glazing bars. Street fronted retaining drag edged tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" plinth to perimeter with cast-iron railings now missing.

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