County Buildings, 121, 123 High Street, Kirkcudbright

The County Buildings, located at 121 and 123 High Street in Kirkcudbright, date from the late 18th century and consist of a terraced house that is two storeys high over a basement, featuring five bays with the outer pairs bowed. The exterior is finished in painted stucco, with margins and rusticated quoins. There are four basement windows with six panes in the bows, and a band course above. The central door is accessed by a flight of steps leading down from the basement area, featuring a Roman Doric engaged column doorpiece with a pedimented panelled door. Above, the first-floor windows have lugged architraves, and all windows are fitted with 12-pane sashes. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and has straight skews with block skewputts, as well as end stacks with angle margins. The roof is slate.

To the right is an earlier 19th-century two-storey, two-bay house that is now part of the County Offices. This section also features painted stucco with margins and channelled, rusticated quoins. The left bay contains a door with a moulded architrave, entablature, and blocking course. Like the main building, it has 12-pane sashes throughout, and the cornice and castellated parapet continue along the remaining elevations. Arrowhead cast-iron railings enclose the forecourt.

At the rear, there is an extensive modern office range built in 1952.