Old Cleveland Court House, heritage-listed former workers' quarters and courthouse in Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

The Old Cleveland Court House is a single-storeyed painted brick building at 1 Paxton Street, its brick core built around 1853. It has a hipped corrugated iron roof with a bell-cast front, a bowed weatherboard verandah sheeting to sill height, and six-paned sash windows with unpainted stone sills. A 1977 extension added a restaurant and living quarters, forming an L-shape around a paved courtyard.

The brick core was probably built around 1853 for Francis Edward Bigge and his brother Frederick William, who had bought the site in January 1852 and ran trading, timber and maritime operations at Cleveland Point; it likely housed their workers. It was then rented to the Commissioner of Police as residence, court house and lockup until about 1880. William Davidson Ross, a retired Brisbane furniture dealer and later chairman of the Cleveland Divisional Board, bought it in 1882 and lived there; after his death in 1895 the Queensland National Bank sold it, and title passed to Charles Frederick Allen in April 1907.

The building carries several names: Cleveland Court House & Lockup, Ostend, and Ye Olde Court House Restaurant. Its use as court house and lockup came through a lease to the Commissioner of Police until about 1880, after the Bigge brothers had it built as quarters for their Cleveland Point workers. From the early 1960s it served as tearooms.

The building sits low against the footpath at 1 Paxton Street, where the street runs down to Moreton Bay, so it is reached on foot from the street. The 1977 extension wraps the restaurant around a paved and planted courtyard, and the original core keeps its open front verandah facing Paxton Street.

The second fireplace in the enclosed verandah came from the Bellevue Hotel in Brisbane, and the 1977 restaurant extension holds other relics of historic buildings. The core itself is painted brick in English bond, with two internal walls in stretcher bond and circular fretwork vents centred in five ceilings.