Surry County Courthouse Complex is a historic

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-spe ...

complex located at Surry,

Surry County, Virginia Surry County is a county (United States), county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 6,561. In 1652, Surry County was formed from the portion of James City County, Virginia, Jame ...

. The complex consists of the county courthouse, old clerk's office (1825–1826), VPI Extension office (c. 1907), the Commonwealth Attorney's office, the Commissioner of Revenue's office, a storage building, a Confederate memorial, and general district court building (c. 1840). The county courthouse building was built in 1923, and is a two-story, seven bay,

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style brick building. It features a hexastyle

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that dominates its front facade. an
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in 1986.

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County courthouses in Virginia Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Government buildings completed in 1923 National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, Virginia Buildings and structures in Surry County, Virginia {{SurryCountyVA-NRHP-stub