Their primary role is to provide legal advice to magistrates in the court room and in their retiring room, as well as assisting in the administration of the court business.
This is where the master bedroom is, downstairs, of which may have been a retiring room initially.
The judges' retiring room, barristers' robing room and office for a clerk were added in 1844.
The maintenance of the existing retiring room and dormitories would be taken up in the next phase.
The building also included dressing rooms, tea-rooms and a ladies' retiring room.
It is hardly the case that the lavatory directly connects with the retiring room: it is separated from it by a lobby and it is well ventilated.
There is only one retiring room.
The court room was modernised 10 years ago and there is a holding room, a retiring room, private facilities for justices, interview rooms for solicitors and waiting rooms.
