Court House, Bridge Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8EN

The building is an early 19th century, T-shaped former Court House, located in Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh. It is currently undergoing extensive restoration funded by European Peace and Reconciliation and Heritage Lottery Funds, and is described as it stood at the time of survey. The leg of the ‘T’ faces east, while the two-storey rear cross wings run north to south. The roof is pitched and covered with artificial slate, with a cement-rendered chimney at each end of the right wing. A platband extends across the front (east) face of the gable. The principal elevation faces east. The walls are generally wet-dashed and cement rendered, with banded quoins to the east gable. A large door opening is centrally positioned on the front elevation. The south elevation of the courtroom has two window openings, which are now blocked and replaced with modern top-hung timber casements mimicking 6/6 sliding sashes. The north elevation features three tall 3x4 timber casements with a timber panel in the centre.

The left wing has a ground floor extension to its east elevation, exposing the upper section with three windows – a 6/3 sliding sash window at either end and a top-hung six-paned casement in the centre. The extension is constructed with cement-rendered concrete block walls and has an advanced central gable; its front east face features a modern semicircular-headed transom with spoked-glazing bars and a door opening below. The left gable of the wing has three windows on each floor. The right wing’s east elevation incorporates a semicircular-headed recess in the centre, with a modern stained timber door set within a painted stone surround with a pedimented head. Above the door is a landscape timber window with external timber louvred shutters. The right gable displays a top-hung casement window on the first floor to the left. The rear elevation was not visible.

The Court House was designed by W.D. Butler of Dublin and built between 1828 and 1830 at a cost of £1077.18s.0d. Jonathan Tilson of Belturbet, Co Cavan, was the builder. The building was bombed in 1971 and subsequently restored as a church hall in the late 1970s.