County Buildings (former Court House and Prison), Breadalbane Street, Tobermory

Designed by John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear in 1862 it is a 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, Scots Baronial former court house and prison. It is sited on high ground overlooking Tobermory Harbour. It is built in squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, chamfered reveals and crowstepped gables. There are curved corner, corbelled out at the first floor and an advanced, crowstep gabled entrance bay to the north with a segmental arched doorway at the centre. There are shouldered chimney stacks at the corner and the side elevations have gabled outer bays with wallhead chimney stacks. Three gableted windows with thistle finials break the eaves to the former courtroom at the first floor. There are four horizontal, small-pane glazed openings to each of the former cells at the ground floor on the east elevation.

The building has mostly a 6-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof and coped wallhead stacks.

The interior has not been seen. Photographs of the interior of the former courtroom (used as a registry office) show that it has timber panelling to dado height, a segmental-arched recess in the south wall behind a raised timber judge's bench (with later pieced fretwork frieze). There is a raised cast iron fireplace to the left of this recess.

Three sandstone ashlar, square-plan and coped gatepiers front Breadalbane Street including a pedestrian entrance. The rubble boundary wall has rubble copes and includes a curving section of retaining wall to the north.