County Court With Attached Steps And Railings

The County Court, built in 1876, features attached steps and railings. It is constructed of ashlar stone and bright red brick in English bond on the first floor, with ashlar dressings. The building is designed in a Free Baroque style and consists of two storeys and a basement, with seven windows. The rusticated ground floor has steps leading up to double doors with eight panels and plain overlights in the end bays. The doorcases are adorned with lugged architrave surrounds, corner paterae, and fluted hollow reveals, supported by long scroll brackets that hold a cornice and entablature with a hood. The long keystones from the architrave to the hood feature carved heads: a blindfolded Justice on the left and Queen Victoria with the date 1876 on the right. The ground floor has channelled rustication and a wide sill band for the sashes, which have moulded architraves. The basement has plain reveals for fixed lights with glazing bars. The first-floor sashes are framed by architraves beneath a panelled frieze and cornice. The top entablature has "COUNTY COURT" incised in a panel under a brick fascia, topped by a prominent modillioned gutter cornice with a blocking course. Square-topped dwarf walls flanking the steps to each door have spear-headed cast-iron railings that continue along the chamfered area wall.