Old Police Houses

A row of four estate houses was built in 1860 and has undergone few later alterations. The houses are constructed of random slatestone rubble with limestone dressings, and have a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. They are designed in an asymmetrical Tudor Gothic style arranged as a long range, with No. 1 set in a short, projecting gabled wing to the front left, Nos. 2 and 3 forming the central range, and No. 4 with a side entrance on the right side. The rooms are heated by axial stacks.

The projecting wing has a canted bay window at ground floor with a mullion and transom window to the front and single lights to the sides. Above this is a 3-light mullion and transom window with a stepped head and relieving arch, and a single 4-centred arched light at ground floor to the right. A chamfered 4-centred arched doorway, with relieving arch and plain door, is on the right side of the wing. A single 4-centred arched window is corbelled out at first floor.

The main range has similar 4-centred arched doorways to the right and left, flanked by two 3-light mullion and transom windows on each side, and a single 4-centred arched light. At first floor, two large gabled dormers each have a pointed arched 3-light mullion and transom window, with raised coped verges to the gables. A projecting gabled bay is broken forward with a 4-light mullion and transom window at ground floor and a similar 3-light window with stepped head at first floor, and a single 4-centred arched light at ground floor to the right. The end right gable has a projecting weathered chimney stack with a datestone above, displaying the Eliot crest and the date 1860, alongside a polygonal limestone stack with a cornice. The right gable end has a similar 4-centred arched doorway and a 3-light casement at first floor. The left side has a projecting gabled bay to the right with a blocked single light at ground floor, a shield in a niche above dated 1860, and a triple polygonal stack rising from the gable. To the left, there is a 3-light mullion and transom window and a gabled dormer above with raised coped verges and a 2-light pointed arched mullion and transom window. A single-storey rear service wing is attached to the left with a 2-light casement with a gable over, a single light, and a gable end stack with a brick shaft. The interior has not been inspected.