Swords Courthouse, court house in County Dublin

What is recorded here

Swords Courthouse in Townparks has six yellow chimney pots, lined up three on either side like witnesses kept apart before a trial. All six insist they saw nothing. A suspicious amount of smoke has been coming from their end.

Detached three-bay single-storey courthouse built 1843, with double-height central block and flanking single-storey recessed wings. Designed by Alexander Tate.ROOF: Hidden behind parapet wall, double pitched; hipped slate; terracotta roof ridge tiles; tall limestone stacks to right & left with three yellow clay pots with decorative cornices; cast-iron rainwater goods; hipped slate roofs to flanking wings. WALLS: Coursed limestone with limestone quoining. OPENINGS: square headed tri-partite window with terracotta panel above with foliage moulding and limestone quoining; limestone lugged architrave & granite steps positioned in each side bay; double leaf timber doors .

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11335002

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