Former Police Cottages Immediately East of Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2001. House.
Former Police Cottages Immediately East of Police Station
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-loggia-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Police Cottages Immediately East of Police Station, Market Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 744
- Coordinates
- 50.54971, -4.1435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former police cottages, located immediately east of the police station in Tavistock, were built in 1869 by the Bedford Estate. These attached houses are constructed from stone rubble with granite dressings and feature slate roofs with gabled ends. The building has stone axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs and moulded caps.
The cottages are L-shaped in plan, with a cross-wing on the right side extending to the rear, and are designed in the Tudor style. The exterior is two storeys high and presents an asymmetrical three-window southeast front. There is a slightly advanced gabled bay on the right, along with small gables over the central and left bays. The windows are framed in chamfered granite and have casements with glazing bars. The right-hand gable displays a tablet inscribed with the year 1869, along with the letter B and a coronet above it. The rear of the building faces the police station, and the left wing is rendered on the first floor.
The cottages were built by the 7th Duke of Bedford to serve the adjacent police station. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Police Cottages Immediately East of Police Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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