Police Station and Magistrates' Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1983. A Victorian Police station, court. 2 related planning applications.
Police Station and Magistrates' Court
- WRENN ID
- stony-gravel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1983
- Type
- Police station, court
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Police Station and Magistrates' Court, High Street, Stow-On-The-Wold
- OS grid reference
- SP 190 259
- Coordinates
- 51.93133, -1.72375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Police Station and Magistrates' Court, built in the 1860s or 1870s, is a Gothic-style building located on the west side of High Street. It is two and a half storeys tall, constructed of rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and features a Cotswold stone roof. The building has ashlar chimneys, including one for the courtroom with an octagonal stack. A string course runs over the ground floor, and there is a large gable on the left side with a three-light pointed window in the Decorated style, while a smaller gable on the right accommodates a two-light attic window. The building also includes mullion and transom windows, particularly in the bay on the left side of the ground floor and in a four-centred opening above an off-centre left doorway. A covered stair is located in a lean-to on the left. At the rear, there is a large plate tracery window in the Decorated style. This building is considered one of the better police stations from its period in the Cotswolds.
Local climate
Police Station and Magistrates' Court receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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