The Old Court House

The Old Court House is a court house that has been converted into offices, built in 1864. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and features banded roofs made of Welsh and Westmorland slate, along with stone stacks. The building is designed in the Gothic style and consists of a main range with a rear wing, standing two storeys high and now further divided.

The front facade has four windows, with the entrance located at the extreme right. This entrance features a Caernarvon-arched doorway set within a pointed-segmental arch, topped with a carved and traceried tympanum. Above the doorway is a carved royal arms, and to its left is a single-light window, also with a Caernarvon head within a pointed-segmental arch. The remaining bays are fitted with three-light stone-mullioned windows that have Caernarvon heads, and a continuous label mould that connects to the one above the doorway, adorned with carved grotesques. On the first floor, there are tall two-light windows in pointed-segmental arches with foliage label stops, each window featuring trefoil-headed lights and central roundels.

The building has a tall, steep-pitched roof with crested ridge tiles and three triangular dormer ventilators. The roof is accentuated by large stepped gable parapets, along with a smaller gable above the entrance bay. The left main gable showcases a large rose window beneath a pointed-segmental arch. The rear of the building includes similar first-floor windows and a tall lateral stack, with a short rear wing returning on the left.

Inside, the building features an arch-braced collar-truss roof with pierced spandrels, with posts that spring from stone corbels carved with faces and stiff-leaf foliage.