Magistrates Court is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. Court, police station. 2 related planning applications.
Magistrates Court
- WRENN ID
- pitched-span-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Court, police station
- Address
- Magistrates Court, 35, High Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 636 900
- Coordinates
- 51.60769, -2.5258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Magistrates Court, originally built as a Police Station in 1860, is located on Thornbury High Street. The building features a rendered exterior with painted quoins and a slate roof that is set behind a parapet and a modillioned cornice. It is two storeys high and has two tripartite sash windows, each with moulded architraves. A central Ionic porch made of ashlar leads to a four-panel door that includes an overlight.
Local climate
Magistrates Court receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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