The Shirehall

The Shirehall is an 18th-century rebuilding of a medieval commercial market and toll house, located in Holt. The ground floor retains a chamfered timber post with carved stops on a stone base, supporting a large chamfered beam. A second stone base is re-used as a mounting block near the main doorway. The courtroom on the first floor features a segmental barrel-vaulted ceiling.

The building is a classical design with rendered brick walls, quoins at the corners, and a pantiled roof with parapetted gable ends. It is two storeys high. The east front has a round-arched sash window with a rusticated surround in the gable above, and two ground floor sash windows with glazing bars. Two horizontal string courses run along the facade. An additional bay to the right (north) features a round-arched, rusticated doorway with a semi-circular fanlight above a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, and a flush-panelled door. The south side has four bays over two storeys, with sash windows containing glazing bars; the left-hand ground floor windows have been replaced by five small, modern windows.