[1][2] Additional judicial facilities, to accommodate the crown and county courts, were established in Alexandra House in St John's Street in the mid-1980s.

The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department, on the north side of Wilton Road, had been occupied by the recreation ground for the Old Manor Hospital which had closed in 2003.

[8] It was designed by Stride Teglown / Feilden & Mawson in the Modernist style, built in buff brick and glass by Mansall Construction at a cost of £18 million, and was officially opened in September 2009.

The central section of eleven bays featured a single-storey entrance block, which was projected forward and accessed by a glass sliding doorway at the right-hand end.

[13] Notable cases have included the trial and conviction of an Afghan man, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, in January 2023, for the murder of an aspiring Royal Marine, Thomas Roberts; he had already killed two other men in Serbia.