Police Station

This is a former police station, originally built as Londonderry Offices around 1860. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar quoins and has Welsh slate roofs. The building has a long, narrow facade with projecting wings to the rear, displaying a modified classical style incorporating elements of 17th-century French architecture.

The symmetrical street facade is two storeys high, with a five-bay central section and slightly projecting four-bay wings. The ground floor features a chamfered stone plinth and a central rusticated porte-cochere. It also has four-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars and raised sills, with three windows blocked in the left wing. A string course runs between the floors. The first-floor windows are similar sashes, set within raised sills on square brackets and eared architraves.

A central, projecting two-stage clock tower rises above the porte-cochere, featuring raised quoins, a tall corniced lower stage with a round-headed window surrounded by a Gibbs surround and a keyed oculus, and a short, narrow upper stage with corner consoles, four circular clock faces, and a slightly pointed, lead-sheathed dome with four vertical, louvred oval openings. A continuous moulded eaves cornice runs along the facade.

The flanking wings have low-pitched hipped roofs with flat tops, each with three round-arched dormers featuring double-keyed architraves. The rear of the building is irregular, with round-arched windows, some with Gibbs surrounds, and numerous corniced ashlar stacks. The interior has been largely remodelled.