Former District Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Police station.
Former District Police Station
- WRENN ID
- bitter-baluster-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Former District Police Station, 49 and 50, Highgate West Hill, London, N6 6DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 874
- Coordinates
- 51.57111, -0.14983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Highgate District Police Station and Justice Room, built around 1850 for the Metropolitan Police, is now used as shops and offices. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with brick quoins and has two storeys plus basements. The building features a double front with three windows and a single-storey, one-bay extension to the left. A central projecting portico showcases rusticated brickwork, a keystone, a bracketed cornice, and a blocking course, along with a round-arched doorway that includes a fanlight and double panelled doors. The ground floor has 20th-century reproduction wooden shopfronts that mimic 19th-century styles. The first floor displays brick architraves and keystones above segmental-arched recessed sash windows, along with a bracketed stucco cornice and a brick blocking course. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the building stopped functioning as a police station in 1902 when a new station was established on Archway Road.
Local climate
Former District Police Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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