{"entry-date":"2013-01-29","start-date":"1950-08-11","end-date":"","entity":42157060,"name":"The Court House","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1303244","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":220,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.685322 55.165284, -1.685425 55.165288, -1.685529 55.165262, -1.685551 55.165281, -1.68565 55.165241, -1.685599 55.165198, -1.685719 55.16515, -1.685645 55.165087, -1.68563 55.165087, -1.68559 55.165053, -1.685592 55.165044, -1.685518 55.164982, -1.685396 55.16503, -1.685347 55.164987, -1.685245 55.165027, -1.685266 55.165045, -1.685259 55.165048, -1.685193 55.165092, -1.685161 55.165149, -1.685177 55.165205, -1.685223 55.165245, -1.685237 55.165256, -1.685322 55.165284)))","point":"POINT (-1.68542 55.165145)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"MORPETH CASTLE BANK NZ 2085 25/217 The Court House 11.8.50 GV II* Former courthouse, and gateway to former gaol; now restaurant and apartments. 1822 by John Dobson. Ashlar. Castellated Gothic style. Massive square front block with square side towers and 8-sided apsidal back. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Central Tudor-arched carriage entry in 2-storey pointed-arched recess with triple-chamfered arch; 2-light Decorated window on 1st floor and very large Civic crest on second floor. Canted outer bays have large broached buttresses at the corners. Small diamond-paned windows with shouldered lintels on 1st floor and large mullioned-and-transomed crosses with shouldered lintels on 2nd floor. Battlemented parapet on large close-set triple-stop corbels. Vaulted passageway through building has one bay of rib vault then pointed tunnel vault with transverse ribs. Interior: Gothic, stone imperial stair with plaster lierne vault. Former courtroom, now bar and restaurant, has elaborate Tudor-Gothic ceiling divided into 8 large triangles with large moulded principal ribs on arched braces; each triangle sub-divided by smaller ribs and cross ribs and with tracery at the apex. 8-sided, canted stone screen with 8 pointed-arched doorways, and pierced parapet with Tudor-rose panels. ,","listed-building":"1303244"}