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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