Former Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. Former police station. 10 related planning applications.

Former Police Station

WRENN ID
strange-tracery-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
Former police station
Address
Former Police Station, Hobson House, 42 - 44 St Andrews Street, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AS
OS grid reference
TL 452 581
Coordinates
52.20252, 0.12422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a former Police Station, constructed in 1901 by John Morley, designed in the style of G G Scott the younger’s New Building at Pembroke of 1883. It is faced with ashlar and extends to three storeys and attics, with a five-bay arrangement. The ground floor features a central doorway, accompanied by two-light mullion and transom windows on the right-hand side. The left-hand bays have been altered to create a garage entrance. All original window openings exhibit Gibbs surrounds. The first floor has two-light mullion windows above windows of two lights with mullion and transom. All windows are leaded lattice casements. A five-light window with three transoms is positioned above the doorway. The attic storey has pedimented and Venetian gabled dormers, with balustrades situated between them. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

Former Police Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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