Beaminster Youth Centre

Beaminster Youth Centre, originally a Police House and Magistrates Court, dates from the early 19th century. It features Lias ashlar walls with a plinth and a slate roof, which has stone gable copings and cavetto-moulded kneelers. There is one brick stack at the left-hand gable. The building is three storeys high and has three sash windows with narrow glazing bars and gauged stone voussoirs. The front door is centrally located and topped with a small bracketed stone pediment; it is a wooden door with three recessed panels. To the right, there is a studded plank door with an elliptical arch head, and to the left, a carriage entrance also featuring elliptical gauged stone voussoirs. At the rear, there is a long wing that is two storeys high with six segment-headed windows, two 20th-century doors, and three 20th-century stone sleeper buttresses. Inside, the rear wing has an elliptical ceiled roof, which was formerly part of the magistrate's court, while the former prisoner's cells underneath have been converted into a gymnasium.