Police Station and Courts is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Police station and courts. 5 related planning applications.
Police Station and Courts
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pedestal-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Police station and courts
- Address
- Police Station and Courts, Arpley Street, WA1 1LQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 601 878
- Coordinates
- 53.38617, -2.60074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The police station and courts, built between 1899 and 1900 by R Burns Dick, is a two-storey structure made of pink brick and yellow sandstone. It features moulded brick architraves that are blocked with stone and adorned with keystones. The building includes oriel windows and two octagonal turrets topped with domed metal pavilions, which are supported by metal columns. A Tuscan porch is present, along with an aedile between the storeys and an egg and dart cornice. The design incorporates both round and pointed gables, decorated with shields and swags. The entrances are Tuscan and have round arches, and the interior includes iron stair balusters.
Local climate
Police Station and Courts sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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