Former District Police Station

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TQ2887SW 798-1/5/875

CAMDEN HIGHGATE WEST HILL (East side) Nos.49 and 50

(Formerly Listed as: Nos.49, 50, 51 AND 51A , previously Listed as: HIGHGATE WEST HILL Nos.49, 50 AND 51A)

14/05/74

GV II

Highgate District Police Station and Justice Room, now shops and offices. c1850. For the Metropolitan Police. Yellow stock brick with brick quoins. Two storeys and basements. Double fronted with three windows. Single storey one bay extension to left. Central projecting portico with rusticated brickwork, keystone, bracketed cornice and blocking course; round-arched doorway with fanlight and double panelled doors. Ground floor with C20 reproduction C19 wooden shopfronts. First floor with brick architraves and keystones to segmental-arched recessed sashes. Bracketed stucco cornice, brick blocking course.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the building ceased functioning as a police station in 1902 when a new station was built in Archway Road.

(Survey of London: Vol. XVII, The Village of Highgate (Parish of St Pancras part I): London: -1936: 107-8).

Listing NGR: TQ2831687418