The district includes 24 contributing buildings in the historic core of Spotsylvania.

The principal building is the Spotsylvania Court House, a two-story Roman Revival style brick building built in 1839-1840 and extensively remodeled in 1901.

The front facade features a tetrastyle portico in the Tuscan order.

Associated with the courthouse is a late 18th-century jail and office and storage buildings erected in the 1930s.

This article about a property in Spotsylvania County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.