Central Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1981. A Modern Police station.
Central Police Station
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rafter-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1981
- Type
- Police station
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Central Police Station, Nelson Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 732
- Coordinates
- 51.45687, -2.59241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Police Station in Bristol, dated 1928, was designed by Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas. It is built from limestone ashlar and features a roof that is not visible. The building has an axial plan with wings at each end and is designed in a stripped Neo-Georgian style with Mannerist details. It stands two storeys tall and has a 12-window range. The nearly symmetrical front has curved ends and short returns, adorned with a fluted frieze and parapet. The centre of the facade is raised and set forward, featuring a central scroll inscribed with "Bristol Police Station."
A large central Mannerist doorway is set within a semicircular-arched recess, complete with a moulded architrave that includes Gibbs blocks and five massive stepped keys. This doorway leads to double 24-panel studded doors, topped with a fanlight. The windows are plain and fitted with metal glazing bars, while the first floor to the left is windowless. The right-hand return has seven windows. The interior has not been inspected. This building shares its design with the Police Headquarters nearby.
Local climate
Central Police Station receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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