June 1785

The said Committee Report

That having taken into Consideration the Order of
Reference and having taken a View of the Session House and of the Ground
adjoining they are of Opinion That the Pavement to the Front of the
Building should be 12 feet wide and paved with Moor Stone Curb at the
Extremity thereof and filled in with Purbeck Squares, the Footways to the
several doors should be paved in the same manner. That a give and take
Line should be laid out with the Commissrs. for paving St John Clerkenwell
to be Enclosed with a Slight Iron Railing, and that a Parallel footway of
different Widths as the case may require should be settled with the said
Parish and formed at the Expence of the County in manner following vizt.

The Extremitys thereof to be laid with the Curb or Moor
Stone and the inside levelled and filled with hard Screen
Ballast or Drift.

That the Ground in the Front of the said Session house
should be inclosed with Oak Posts and double Rails framed into the
same with Rails to open for the Carriages with proper Footways through
or across the same Ground and a Whipping Post fixed up in the Center
thereof.

That it is the Opinion of the Committee that the
present Store Room and Stairs together with part of the Arcade next
the Hall should be joined together for a Grand Jury Room

That Stone Stairs should be formed to go up under the
Clerks Stairs Case from a Vestibule below where the Stone Stairs now are

That an Exclosure should be made over the open Space
of the Sub Hall for a Lobby (connected by an Arch with the present Passage)
between the present Jury Room and the New one (lighted from the Great Hall)
and the present Room under the Court to be considered as a waiting room
for the Witnesses and divided.

One of the Indictment Offices in consequence of the above
will require Alteration

That a large Ventilator similar to that at the Old
Bailey be fixed over the Arena of the Court