Monaghan Courthouse

Court house in Monaghan, Ireland, dating from 1825–1830

Freestanding two-storey courthouse, built 1827, comprising five-bay front block with three-bay side elevations and pedimented three-bay breakfront comprising two centred half-fluted Doric columns and two flanking square piers surmounted by pediment with British Royal Coat-of-Arms to tympanum, projecting three-bay two-storey over basement wings to each side of rear, slightly recessed narrow two-bay two-storey over basement block to close rear of this U-plan arrangement, with further recessed two-storey block one-bay deep and six bays wide, easternmost bay being three storeys. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to rear gables of wings, with lead flashings, roofs concealed by parapet of ashlar sandstone, projecting carved sandstone string course at eaves level to front elevation, smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar sandstone walls to first floor of front elevation and side blocks, rusticated ashlar sandstone with double string course to ground floor of front elevation, dressed coursed rubble walls with tooled block-and-start quoins to rear and side elevations. Round-headed windows to first floor of side blocks and square-headed elsewhere, with timber sliding sash windows. Tripartite nine-over-nine pane to round-headed windows with spoked fanlights, nine-over-nine pane to first floor of front and side elevations of front block, and to all of rear block exc

Type:
Court house

Period:
1825–1830

Where:
Monaghan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.25°N, 6.97°W

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