The Old Police Station

The Old Police Station, dated 1858, originally served as a Petty Sessional Court and Police Station. It is located on a prominent corner in Cirencester, now offices. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, featuring clay tile roofs with coped verges, trefoil stops, corbelled-out kneelers, six stacks (one ashlar, five rebuilt in reconstituted stone), and is arranged in an L-plan. It is built in a simple Jacobethan style, with one gable on the splayed corner, and four gables to a single-storey service wing facing Park Lane.

The principal elevation to Castle Street is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and has a three-window range. The first floor has three two-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom windows with iron casements and hoodmoulds, and two similar three-light windows to the ground floor. A studded plank door is set within a decorative hollow-chamfered stone surround with a hoodmould, and has decorative strap hinges and a ring back-plate. Three gabled dormers, each with a two-light mullion-and-transom window with pointed tops, are visible in the attic. The chamfered plinth includes an arched opening to the left and a cellar light grating to the pavement, with a footscraper in a chamfered opening to the right of the door. A moulded string runs over the ground floor, and there are relieving arches over the ground and first floor openings. Flush quoins are present at the left and right angles. Four down-pipes, three from the 19th century with decorative hopper heads, are visible. A single-storey section to the right fronting Castle Street has one single-light window and two pointed openings, now containing a 20th-century door and window. A parapet and shaped false gable are topped with heavy moulded coping.

The corner facing Tetbury Road is gabled and splayed, with an oriel window to the first floor, featuring four lights with pointed tops within a chamfered stone surround, a moulded base on a shaped bracket, and a stone roof with a crested edge. There is a two-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window to the attic with pointed lights, and two similar single-light windows to the ground floor. A moulded string runs over the ground floor and around the oriel window, connecting to the Castle Street and Park Lane elevations. A carved ribbon decoration in the gable surrounds a shield displaying the words "PETTY SESSIONAL COURT AND POLICE STATION", with "AD 1858" carved on the shield. The two-window elevation to Park Lane is similar to that on Castle Street. A single-storey service wing is located on the left in a matching style. The rear elevation includes a stone external stair and a diagonally-boarded timber external gallery at the first floor. The interior has undergone some 20th-century alterations.