Former West Hill Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1986. Police station. 5 related planning applications.
Former West Hill Police Station
- WRENN ID
- tall-screen-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1986
- Type
- Police station
- OS grid reference
- TQ 536 741
- Coordinates
- 51.44573, 0.20975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former West Hill Police Station, built in 1843, is a single-storey structure with stock brick walls. It features a cornice and blocking course that extends around a central projecting bay, which has a pediment above. The central projection includes a four-panel door accessed by two steps, flanked by blocked window openings with rubbed brick arches on each side. There is blank walling set back on either side of the central bay. The original layout, as shown on the Ordnance Survey map from 1868, included a central reception area with two cells on each side. The eastern cells were later modified to include a large drying closet for the workhouse, while the western cells were converted into a single room but still retain a door. The building stopped operating as a police station after 1872 and subsequently served as a workhouse ward for tramps.
Local climate
Former West Hill Police Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 applications
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