Roma Courthouse, Heritage courthouse in Roma, Australia.

The Roma Courthouse is a government building on McDowall Street with rendered brick walls and Federation free style architectural features completed in 1901. The structure shows characteristic design elements of that era with carefully crafted details throughout.

The first Roma courthouse, a small timber building, opened in 1866 on a reserve west of the town centre and hosted the first Roma Town Council meeting on 10 August 1867. It was replaced by the present rendered masonry building, designed by John Smith Murdoch and erected in 1901 on a new court reserve. The earlier courthouse was where Harry Redford, known as Captain Starlight, was tried and acquitted in February 1873 for stealing 1,000 cattle from Bowen Downs Station.

Roma was named after Lady Bowen, wife of Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen; her maiden name was Countess Diamantina Georgina di Roma. The town was proclaimed in September 1862, the first in Queensland after separation in 1859. A concrete monument with a granite tablet at the front of the McDowall Street police station marks the first Roma Town Council meeting, held at the earlier courthouse on 10 August 1867.

The courthouse sits on a triangular block facing McDowall Street, with the single-storey timber police buildings of 1919 alongside it. The building is still in use as a working court, so courtrooms and offices are not open for sightseeing; the 1967 concrete monument with granite tablet stands at the front of the police station.

The first Roma courthouse on this site hosted the town council's inaugural meeting on 10 August 1867. A concrete monument with a granite tablet and plaque, erected for the 1967 centenary and unveiled by Gwydir Laycock, former chairman of the Bungil Shire Council, stands in front of the McDowall Street police station to mark it.