Castleblayney Courthouse and Market House — Market Square

Freestanding eight-bay two-storey over basement market house, built c.1790, facing south-west, having four central bays of front elevation recessed and fronted by single-storey arcaded loggia reached by two steps, and with three-bay courthouse block added c.1856 to straight-sided rear, north-east, seven-bay elevation having chamfered corners and continuous arcaded loggia. Three-bay end elevations to main block. Now disused. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof partially concealed behind lead-sheeted stone parapets, having smooth rendered chimneystacks with over-sailing courses. Copper-roofed octagonal-plan belvedere to south-east elevation, with clock below placed in small round-topped pediment that interrupts cornice. Loggia to front has plain parapet supported on plain pilasters with render plinths. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with smooth rendered platband beneath heavy moulded cornice at wall tops, plaster guilloche ornament between ground and first floors, rusticated smooth render quoins, and with projecting cut-stone base to ground floor. Basement level to rear addition has quarry-faced ashlar walls beneath chamfered string course and has empty niches to chamfered corners. Street level to front and end elevations has semi-circular areas bounded by cast-iron railings. Square-headed window openings having stone sills to top floor of original block and to short sides of addition, and round-headed to ground floor and to basement of addition, latter having rusticated voussoirs. Ground floor windows, including those to interior of front loggia, are set within shallow recesses. Building forms island within Market Square, at junction of Main Street and Muckno Street.