Former Kingussie Sheriff Court, 36 High Street, Kingussie

Designed by Matthews and Laurie in 1865 and altered into offices in 2015-16 by the Highland Council Property and Housing Service. This building is a 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay, rectangular plan classical style former court house. It is built in coursed and squared sandstone with tooled ashlar sandstone dressings, including long and short quoins to the corners and centre bay, and a pronounced eaves band and cornice.

The principal (south) elevation has a slightly advanced and pedimented centre bay. The 2-leaf timber panelled entrance door is under a decoratively bracketted cornice. There are moulded architraves to the doorway and window openings. The panelled window aprons are linked by a band course at the first floor.

There is 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows throughout.

The end chimney stacks are corniced and each have later 19th century square cans with flared caps and barley twist detailing at the corners. There is a piended platform slate roof.

There is a corniced stone wing wall with a pedestrian gate attached to the east of the main elevation. A roofless stone outbuilding (former toilet block) comprising 3 stalls is to the southeast of the court house and is attached to tall and coped coursed rubble boundary walls which surround the court house at the east, south and west.

The interior was seen in 2015. It has a good decorative interior scheme and much of the 1865 plan form remains, with the public offices on the ground floor and a main courtroom on the first floor. There is an entrance lobby incorporating a dog-leg staircase with a curved and decorative cast iron balustrade and timber handrail. There are basket arches in the ground floor corridors and a cast iron pot-bellied stove to the south. The ground floor corridor provides access to three timber lined cells with small high level windows. The timber panelled cell doors have a hatch, spy hole and lock. The former courtroom has a coombed ceiling with three decorative vents and a timber bench. The secondary rooms and offices have simple moulded cornicing and panelled doors and timber floors, some have fireplaces with timber surrounds.