Petty Sessions Court, Quay Street, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 5ED

A two-storey five-bay Italianate former Bank, now courthouse; built c.1866 and located to the east of Quay Street in the centre of Bangor. Rectangular on plan with two-storey return to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with painted render chimneystacks. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with hoppers on projecting corbelled eaves. Walling is painted render/stucco with quoins (channelled to ground floor). Windows are round-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash to ground floor with projecting masonry sills on console brackets, panelled aprons set in recesses; square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash to first floor with balustrade aprons and bracketed pedimented tops. The principal elevation faces west and is five openings wide. Tuscan door-case to centre at ground floor with paired pilasters and plain entablature; cornice extends to form string course between each floor. Three-panelled double-leaf timber door with plain transom light. Disabled access to front and flag-pole to centre of first floor. The north elevation is blank. The east elevation has 6/6 timber sliding sash window to right at first floor and modern timber door to ground floor. Abutted to centre by square two-storey return with hipped roof: return having modern timber window to right at first floor and door to left with attached fire-escape; fire-door to right at ground floor. Return abutted to right by single-storey flat-roof extension and to left by single-storey extension having uPVC cupola. The south elevation is concealed by neighbouring building. Setting The courthouse is situated on Quay Street in Bangor town centre, near the McKee clock and overlooking Bangor harbour. Tarmacadam car-park to rear accessed through corrugated metal gate. Bounded to all sides by high painted masonry wall topped with chain link wire fence. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron