Former Inveraray Jail and County Court, Crown Point, Inveraray is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 February 1966. Former county buildings and court house. 1 related planning application.

Former Inveraray Jail and County Court, Crown Point, Inveraray

WRENN ID
forgotten-copper-heron
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 February 1966
Type
Former county buildings and court house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

The building was designed by James Gillespie Graham who based his scheme on a design of 1807 by Robert Reid. It was built from 1816-1820 and is a 2-storey with an attic, 3 bay, symmetrical and classical in style, former county buildings and court house. It was partly restored by Ian Gordon Lindsay & Partners in 1965 with further restoration work in 1989 as Inveraray Jail visitor attraction.

It is built of ashlar with a rusticated ground floor and Tuscan pilasters at the corners rising from the first to attic floors. The sides and rear elevations are harled with ashlar dressings. The rear elevation has a full height bowed bay at the centre. There is a piended roof behind a balustrade parapet. The central advanced bay of the front elevation has a large Venetian window flanked by paired Tuscan pilasters. The entrance door has a segmental fanlight below and the first floor windows have balustraded aprons.

The interior was seen in 2014, and is arranged around a first floor courtroom at the rear of the building. The courtroom is symmetrical with a recess behind the bench supported on Tuscan columns rising from the bench. The timber pews which have been reinstated are in a raked semi-circular formation. There is central dog-leg stone stair with a plain balustrade and timber handrail.

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