Old Police Station

The Old Police Station, dating from 1882, was designed by Henry Crisp. It is constructed of squared Pennant rubble with Bath stone dressings, featuring gable stacks and a tile roof. The building follows a single-depth, axial plan with a projecting wing to the rear. It is built in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. The two-storey front has a twelve-window range, with the central two windows set within a three-storey tower. A near-symmetrical facade has a two-centred archway leading to a central porch, which has a stepped gable, wheel bollards, steel gates, and a portcullis. The doorway within the porch has a heavy, stopped ovolo moulding and a pitched roof of weathered limestone ashlar. Raking buttresses are behind the porch and lead to the square tower, which features a clock on the first floor, front and back, beneath a hoodmould, with arrow slits on each side. An overhanging machicolated turret with crenellations tops the tower. The ground floor has a 20th-century addition brought forward flush with the porch, featuring two garage entrances at the end and a door and window beside the porch. The windows are flat-headed, with uneven jambs and stopped ovolo mouldings; they have 6/6-pane sashes and are linked by lintel and sill bands. A weathered corbel table and parapet with embrasures and cross arrow slits step up to the tower, with square turrets at each end and gable-end stacks behind the crow-stepped gables. The interior includes a range of cells at the rear with white glazed tiles, and central rear lateral stair flights.