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The date of construction was 1604, or 1691 according to the pediment over the entrance door.
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Completed in 1792, the building is of five bays in length with the centre three arches projected with a secondary pediment.
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The sculpture is always located in several predetermined areas, the metopes and the pediment.
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The central front bay features a full pediment.
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The general form this architecture took was of severely symmetrical, often rectangular houses, with a pediment over the central bays.
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On the southern side sits a broken pediment with a griffin peering out below.
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While the windows of the "piano nobile" support pediments with corbels, the upper part of the composition is gradually simplified.
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Its facade has three levels, each level scaled proportionally and topped by a triangular pediment with a circular window.
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The brick courthouse features a two-story columned pediment and is surmounted by a clock tower.
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On the main front the central bay breaks forward slightly and is topped by a pediment.
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