Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Police station. 17 related planning applications.
Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp
- WRENN ID
- outer-grate-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp, 12a, Holmes Road, NW5 3AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 850
- Coordinates
- 51.54967, -0.14197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The police station, built between 1894 and 1896 by architect Norman Shaw, features yellow stock brick with stone bands at the sill levels and below the parapet. It stands three storeys tall and has eight windows. The entrance is a round-arched stone opening engraved with the word "Police," complete with a hoodmould, fanlight, and double panelled doors. To the right, there is a vehicle entrance, now blocked to form a room behind it, which has a stone 4-centred arch with heavy rusticated block dressings. The ground floor has sash windows with stone lintels, with the windows flanking the entrance being paired. The first and second floors feature segmental-arched brick heads and stone keystones, topped by a parapet. The building retains its original rainwater heads and pipes.
Inside, the layout has been altered with partitions and false ceilings. Attached to the building are cast-iron railings with an overthrow that includes a blue lamp marked with the word "Police." The police station was restored in 1984.
Local climate
Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 17 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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