Banff Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, Low Street, Banff, Including Boundary Walls and Railings

James Matthews, 1868-71. 2-storey, 7-bay with 5 bay return Renaissance, palazzo type court house with slightly advanced 3-bay centre and balustraded portico supported by paired Corinthian columns. Rectangular plan comprising U-plan with void of U infilled with double height courtroom. Tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings to principal (east) elevation and south elevation. Channelled quoins. Base course and string course between ground and first floor. Deep moulded and modillioned cornice below balustraded parapet and wide, panelled stacks to the centre. Segmental-headed keystoned ground floor aproned windows with moulded jambs. Keystoned round-headed first floor windows linked at impost level by decorative bandcourse with floral motif. North and rear elevations are harled with plain ashlar dressings.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. Grey slates, pitched roof with a piended roof to the courtroom. Plain blocked wallhead; corniced wallhead stack. Modillioned corniced stacks to side and rear elevations.

The interior, seen in 2014, is arranged around a south facing ground floor courtroom and north facing council chamber at first floor. Dog-leg staircase to the north of the plan with decorative cast iron balusters. Courtroom has panelled timber fittings included witness box with curved sounding board. Tall round-arched niches flank judges bench. Coombed and coffered ceiling with modillioned cornice. Iron fireplace with marble mantelpiece to judge's chambers. Predominantly panelled doors and moulded architraves. The council chamber has been refurbished but retains panelled timber doors in moulded architraves, including one with semicircular fanlight, and a moulded cornice.

Ashlar boundary walls with copes and topped by cast iron railings with fleur-de-lys decoration.