Old Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House.
Old Police Station
- WRENN ID
- rooted-entrance-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Police Station, High Street, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SK 073 423
- Coordinates
- 52.97805, -1.8914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Police Station is a house built around 1845, with some later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof with shaped tile bands and coped verges, along with brick and ashlar ridge stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main range aligned north-east to south-west and facing south-east, while the wing is aligned north-west to south-east and projects to the south-east. The structure is one storey and has an attic, with roughly 2:1 bays. There is a projecting gabled wing on the right and a single-storey lean-to bay within the angle between the wing and the main house. The windows are mainly 20th-century casements set in original chamfered surrounds, and there is a central gabled dormer with 2-light chamfered mullioned windows. The door, located to the left of centre, has a cambered arch and a chamfered surround. The Old Police Station is situated in a prominent and elevated position at the head of the High Street, close to the Church of St. Peter and the former National School, and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Old Police Station receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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