Tolbooth, High Street, Forres

William Robertson, 1838-9. Scottish Baronial. Finely stugged

ashlar, rubble to Tolbooth Street; tooled ashlar dressings.

3-storey courthouse, with imposing 3-stage tower and belfry

much resembling its predecessor. Entrance on W face of tower

with round-arched head in deeply splayed reveals. String

course rising over door, and window on N elevation. Round-

arched windows above with string course raised as square

hoodmould over; corbelled stepped parapet with bartizans;

smaller clock stage with similarly detailed parapet bartizans

with conical caps. Tall belfry stage with round-arched

openings, cable moulded cornice, tall bell-cast roof with

crowning cupola; weather vane with gilded cock.

Courthouse and jail to E and S; 3 storeys, 2 bays(W) to High

Street, 9 bays(E) to Tolbooth Street. Square-headed windows

to High Street with corbelled, squared bartizans to outer

bay. Courtroom to S with 2 round-head windows at 1st floor E

and W; 3 smaller round-headed windows and pend to ground

floor. Tolbooth Street; multi-pane glazing. 4 bays to jail,

facing E to Tolbooth Street.

INTERIOR: vaulted rooms in tower; courtroom with coffered

ceiling stained glass windows; some late 19th century

courtroom fittings survive.