Police Station

This police station and magistrates' courts complex, now solely a police station, was built in 1912. It forms a group with the Mulberry Tree Hotel and the Red Lion Inn. The building is constructed of red brick in an English garden wall bond, with red sandstone dressings, and a red tile roof, hipped at the north end.

The main range is oriented on a north-south axis and incorporates a police station at ground floor, former magistrates' courts above, and former constables' lodgings at the north end, with a short west wing and a longer east wing. The architecture is in the Arts-and-Crafts style. The building is two and a half storeys with a 3:3:1 window arrangement. A broad stone band with a weathered drip-course runs over each floor. The central portion features two buttresses; three ground-floor windows, including a pair of tall 6-light mullion-and-transom windows flanking the left buttress, which break the eaves with a pedimental gable containing a stone plaque lettered "1912"; and a cross-window to the right of the second buttress. A two-storey, flat-roofed porch-cum-stair-turret is located in the re-entrant angle to the left, and a broad gabled staircase wing extends to the right.

The porch has an arched doorway in its re-entrant side (formerly the public entrance to the magistrates' court), a two-light window above, a large rainwater hopper lettered “1912,” and a brick parapet with stone coping. The left wing has a recently blocked doorway (formerly to the domestic quarters), a two-light window, and two similar windows at the first floor. The gable above has two similar, smaller windows. The staircase wing to the right has an arched doorway offset to the left and a cross-window at the first floor. A tall, banded and corniced chimney rises behind the ridge of the roof, and a roof siren is located near the south end.

The gabled south front features a wide arched entrance offset to the left, with a splayed reveal, moulded surround, and stone head, and a recessed square-headed doorway with an overlight of three arched lights. A 6-light mullion-and-transom window is situated to the right, while a large, tripartite mullion-and-transom window with beveled Art Nouveau leaded glazing is at the first floor. A small 3-light mullioned window is located within the gable, the centre light containing a carved shield with a crown.

The interior includes a large courtroom at the first floor with original pitch-pine panelling, a magistrates' bench, prisoners' dock, and journalists' pew, along with former police cells on the ground floor.