Sligo Courthouse

Court house in Sligo, Ireland, dating from 1875–1880

Detached multi-bay two-storey stone French Gothic style courthouse, built c. 1878. Four-stage octagonal tower with dormered spire to south of symmetrical main block, two-bay three-storey south-east wing, with south-west wing across small courtyard, two-storey north wing. Steep hipped slate roofs set behind parapets, tall stone corbelled chimneystacks, wrought-iron decorative crested ridges, mitred hips to spire, clay hip tiles to other roofs. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walls, ashlar sandstone dressings and strings. Main front with triple-pointed arch openings to entrance with six trefoil arched windows to first floor and pair of pointed arch windows at second floor with flanking circular bartizans with conical roofs. South-east wing with square-head window openings with quadrant corners, paired at first and second floors with central colonette at first floor. North-east wing with similar windows at first floor, paired segmental-headed with inset trefoil arches. All window openings with painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Pointed-arch opening to main entrance set behind colonnaded porch, pair of half-glazed varnished oak double doors with glazed fanlight over. Pointed-arch opening to entrance to south-east wing with hood moulding and corbelled flat arch over hardwood panelled door. Wrought-iron gates and railings to south-east wing and main entrance approached by

Type:
Court house

Period:
1875–1880

Where:
Sligo, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.27°N, 8.47°W

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