Former Houses Of Correction And Attached Carpenters Shop

The former Houses of Correction and attached Carpenter's Shop, now used as a works office, stores, and kitchen, were likely built in 1788 by William Blackburn and have been altered since. The buildings, which were once connected by the Keeper's House (now demolished), are constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings and quoins. The Houses of Correction are rectangular blocks with hipped roofs covered in slate, standing two storeys tall with five windows on each side. The windows on the ground floor are half-height and stone-dressed, while the first floors feature continuous sill bands. The Carpenter's Shop is a single-storey structure with a pitched slate roof. It has symmetrical entrances on either side of a central window, with a blocked former entrance to the right. Inside, there is a right-hand end internal partition wall with a blocked archway and a partly stone flagged floor.