Former Police Station

The building comprises a former police station, police houses, a courtroom, and later a probation office, constructed in 1904 by Joseph Morris, the surveyor to Berkshire County Council between 1872 and 1915. It was extended in 1911 and includes numbers 1 and 3 Milton Road. The building is of brick construction with Portland and Bath stone dressings and has tile gabled roofs of varying heights. It follows a long rectangular plan with irregular extensions to the north and north-east, and a former courtroom to the west. A prominent pagoda-style tower is situated between the probation office and the station. The probation office is single-storied, while the remainder of the building is two-storied. Several chimneys feature white brick banding and clay pots.

The south-east front, facing Rectory Road, features a gabled probation office on the left. This section has a five-light stone latticed window with a semi-circular Venetian-style moulded stone head, stone strings, and an eaves band, accompanied by brick angled buttresses on the left end. To the right of the probation office is a three-stage brick tower with large tapered stone buttress corners, stone strings, a moulded stone cornice, and wide, coved overhanging eaves. The tower is topped with a pyramidal tiled roof with splayed feet and a ball finial. A semi-circular headed stone entrance is recessed under the tower and accessed by four steps of stone and concrete. The second stage of the tower has a three-light leaded, stone mullioned, and transomed window with a moulded cill, flat cill string, and moulded head. Similar openings are on three sides of the third stage, taller and without glass. To the right of the tower is the former entrance to the station, featuring a brick semi-circular arched head with a recessed porch housing a door and sidelight. Stone cross windows are on either side of this entrance, one on the left and two on the right, with three mid-20th century casements above a gable. A 1911 extension is located to the right of this section, exhibiting five irregular gables of varying heights, including one oriel with a four-light small-pane window over a late 20th-century door and sidelight. The ground floor features casement and two-bay windows, one with a small hipped roof and one with a pent roof. A second entrance door is found on the right, with glazed upper panels.

The south-west front, facing Milton Road, presents a two-story gable on the left, slightly projecting and incorporating a cant bay on the ground floor, with a five-light casement above and tile hanging on the gable and ridge chimney. A larger projecting gable is located on the right, belonging to the former courtroom, and features stone strings and brick buttresses on corners. The central window is a five-light semi-circular headed stone, transomed, and mullioned window with moulded stone strings at the head level. A single-story section is situated between the gables. This section contains a half-glazed and panelled entrance door with a stone quoin surround and a triple key block. To the right of the door is a cant bay in a stone surround and a moulded cill with seven leaded lights. A chimney sits on the ridge of the centre section.