Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1997. Police station. 1 related planning application.
Police Station
- WRENN ID
- weathered-column-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1997
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Police Station, Bridge Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 3HN
- OS grid reference
- SU 498 969
- Coordinates
- 51.66938, -1.28063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This police station was built in 1863 and extended around 1870. It is constructed from stone rubble with red brick dressings, a stone string course, and a slate hipped roof. The building has a long, rectangular plan, with a splayed corner on the north-east side and a three-bay extension to the south-east. The front has seven bays, and the addition has three. The windows are 16-pane sashes with flat brick arches, brick jambs, and stone sills. The central doorway features a similar brick arch and jamb, with a rectangular overlight containing glazing bars and a flush-panelled door. A stone string course runs along the first floor, inscribed at the centre with "COUNTY POLICE STATION." The extension to the left has a lower string course and eaves. At the rear, the first floor has sash windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor has smaller cell windows with iron bars. A single-storey addition is on the right rear, and the extension to the right has a brick rear wall and a gabled wing. Internally, the original cells have been preserved, including their WCs.
Local climate
Police Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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