Dinghuis

The Dinghuis (Ding House) is a building in downtown Maastricht, Netherlands, constructed at the end of the 15th century.

(Ding is the Dutch name for the governing assembly known in most Germanic languages as a thing.)

The northern façade, built around 1470, is timber-framed, and the main façade, built of Namur stone, has a pediment containing a grand clock face.

At the top of the steeply sloped roof is a tower that was once used as a lookout.

The  Dinghuis served mainly administrative and judicial functions (a ding/thing being a judicial assembly), and its cellars contained gaols for holding prisoners.