Court House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A gabled courthouse of two-storey height designed in a freely treated Classical style, with a large segmental rusticated arch recess in the main gable containing three windows surmounted by blind panels, and a segmental pediment over the Tuscan pilastered doorway to a porch on the east side; rendered walls and slated roof; modern gabled extension to the rear. The building stands in a detached position within the built-up area of the town, set back slightly from the pavement behind its original low stone boundary wall and railings, and surrounded by modern security fencing. It is flanked to the left by two-storey terrace houses and to the right by a detached former cottage hospital now converted to offices.

Historical information

Built in 1903; architect, Samuel P. Close. This building lies in the area of a scheduled monument, no. ANT 40:35.

References - Secondary

1. C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (U.A.H.S., Belfast, 1973), p 33.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An Edwardian court house designed by a prominent local architect which retains original features to its entrance façade, but which has otherwise been substantially altered..