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Detached cruciform two-storey former court house, built 1750, now in use as bank. Hipped slate roof to main block and pitched to entrance and rear blocks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone chimneystacks to rear block. Random coursed dressed limestone walls with ashlar quoins, moulded cut stone cornice. Rendered side elevations to main block. Front entrance block with pedimented ashlar façade with paired pilasters, surmounted by stepped square-profile ashlar cupola with domical-vaulted copper-clad roof and with louvers flanked by Ionic pilasters. Back wall of rear block has pediment topped by stone ball finial and has round panel to tympanum, moulded string course with a moulded bracket below. Tooled block-and-start round-headed window surrounds throughout with timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Windows in back wall of main block are set into two-storey round-headed recesses. Square-headed window over main entrance and oculi in back wall of rear block. Timber panelled entrance door in square-headed opening with moulded cut stone surround and entablature. Round-headed doorway in west side of entrance block. Cast-iron railings surround site with ashlar gate piers to south and west.
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